[PATCH 0/5] Fix the Visual Studio 2008 .sln generator

Potential Windows developers are likely to be using Visual Studio as their IDE. The tool stack required for Windows can be tortuous as it crosses the boundaries between platforms and philosophies. This patch series seeks to maintain the tools that could assist such developers. In particular, those tools that generate an initial Visual Studio project (.sln ) file.

The .sln generator in contrib began to break when internationalisation introduced an extra -o option. This recently worsened with the addition of invalidcontinue.obj for 'improved POSIX compatibility'.

I hacked a bit when I first attempted to use the VS IDE and noticed the i18n issue. I didn't completely solve all my issues because of further issues with VS2010 Express, so no patches were submitted at the time.

Now, with a fresh copy of VS20008 Express, I saw the additional problem of the addition of the invalidcontinue.obj reference causing the .sln generation to fail.

The series has been tested against both recent git/git and msysgit/git. Both produce good VS2008 .sln project files though only msysgit/git compiles without error, both using the msysgit msvc-build script. Those compile errors are not related to this patch series.

An initial RFC version was discussed on the msysgit list https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/msysgit/3MQ_NMNM390 or http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.msysgit/21132.

The final patch adds a poorman's --verbose by a few carefully selected commented out debug print statements to assist others in resolving future breakages.

I've cc'd those who have contributed or patched the engine.pl, or appear to be interested via a $gmane search, who can hopefully comment.

Philip Oakley (5):
  engine.pl: Fix i18n -o option in msvc buildsystem generator
  engine.pl: Properly accept quoted spaces in filenames
  engine.pl: ignore invalidcontinue.obj which is known to MSVC
  vcbuild/readme: Improve layout and reference msvc-build script
  engine.pl: provide more debug print statements

 compat/vcbuild/README          | 27 +++++++++++++++++++--------
 contrib/buildsystems/engine.pl | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++------
 2 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)