From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: [RFC] Enable compilation by Makefile for the MSVC toolchain Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:29:14 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: References: <1250600335-8642-1-git-send-email-mstormo@gmail.com> <7vtz05dq0p.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <4A8AE7C5.7050600@gmail.com> <4A8AED8B.9080604@gmail.com> <40aa078e0908181502v32cbd223xcde1cd363dc76345@mail.gmail.com> <40aa078e0908181548t5df05b1ct8013b99ea703ebba@mail.gmail.com> <4A8BA9EC.9000006@storm-olsen.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Erik Faye-Lund , Johan 't Hart , Junio C Hamano , msysgit@googlegroups.com, git@vger.kernel.org, lznuaa@gmail.com, bonzini@gnu.org To: Marius Storm-Olsen X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Aug 19 10:29:25 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MdgXs-00027w-5o for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:29:24 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750853AbZHSI3Q (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Aug 2009 04:29:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750800AbZHSI3Q (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Aug 2009 04:29:16 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:48153 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750770AbZHSI3P (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Aug 2009 04:29:15 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 19 Aug 2009 08:29:15 -0000 Received: from cbg-off-client.mpi-cbg.de (EHLO intel-tinevez-2-302.mpi-cbg.de) [141.5.11.5] by mail.gmx.net (mp041) with SMTP; 19 Aug 2009 10:29:15 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/AaEletvnAPFUTFB5qutauUDhJ1sBeUJuZdMMdFR WNMNA/0S3Jl3Wr X-X-Sender: schindel@intel-tinevez-2-302 In-Reply-To: <4A8BA9EC.9000006@storm-olsen.com> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (DEB 882 2007-12-20) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.68 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Wed, 19 Aug 2009, Marius Storm-Olsen wrote: > The full IDE support is secondary, first because you *can* use the IDE > already, and second because it'll be harder to whip something up which > guarantees that the vcproj support stays in-sync at all times and won't > lag behind. I think the point of Frank's patches is to make Visual Studio users comfortable with Git. You cannot ask those to use a build process or an IDE they are not used to. > Of course, if someone has a huge itch to restructure the current > Makefile; factoring out the files into a file which can simply be > included in the current Makefile, and easily parsed by a script, or > included by CMake, then that can be done in parallel and possible added > to git mainline before the MSVC support patches from Frank. I still think it would be possible to use a combination of a Makefile rule and GNU make features to spit out a list of targets and their dependet .h and .c files. Ciao, Dscho