Re: [RFC] Enable compilation by Makefile for the MSVC toolchain

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

Hi,

On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, Marius Storm-Olsen wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin said the following on 18.08.2009 16:11:
>
> > On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, Marius Storm-Olsen wrote:
> > 
> > > diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> > > +ifneq (,$(findstring Microsoft Visual Studio, $(INCLUDE)))
> ...
> > > +else
> > >  ifneq (,$(findstring MINGW,$(uname_S)))
> > >   pathsep = ;
> > >   NO_PREAD = YesPlease
> > 
> > This means that gcc is never used when Visual C++ is available?  Hmm.
> 
> Yes it does :)

As you know, I do not own a Windows computer.  On the Windows computer I 
am allowed to use sometimes to test Git and my day-time project, the 
Express edition was installed, but it was never registered, so it is not 
usable, and I would not want to use it anyway.

So this change would break my setup.

> I was actually going to replace it with a USE_MSVC variable check 
> instead though, so you'd rather do 'make USE_MSVC=1'

That's much nicer, especially since you can put that into config.mak.

> > > diff --git a/compat/msvc.h b/compat/msvc.h
> > > index 6071565..a9d5f7f 100644
> > > --- a/compat/msvc.h
> > > +++ b/compat/msvc.h
> > > @@ -10,50 +10,120 @@
> > >  
> > >  /*Configuration*/
> > >  
> > > +#ifndef NO_PREAD
> > > #define NO_PREAD
> > > +#endif
> > 
> > Why?  You now have the stuff in two places.  If you want to keep them 
> > in compat/msvc.h to be able to generate .vcproj files, I'd rather not 
> > have them duplicated in the Makefile.
>
> The changes to the msvc.h where added just keep Frank's vcproj project 
> working. I would have just nuked all that stuff in the msvc.h since the 
> Makefile would just provide it for me anyways..

So maybe you and Frank (and Pau) hash out what you want?

Ciao,
Dscho