Re: [PATCH 10/11] Add MSVC Project file
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- Pau Garcia i Quiles <pgquiles@elpauer.org>
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- Aug 17, 2009, 23:00 UTC
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On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 12:26 AM, Johan 't Hart<johanthart@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Johannes Schindelin schreef: > >> Having said that, a CMake-based system _in addition_ to what is >> tried-and-tested to be able to support all those different kinds of >> Microsoft Visual Studio (took me 3 attempts to write that without a >> Freudian) would be welcome, _if_ you succeed in making it compile out of the >> box on msysGit. > > That would require (I think) that CMake is build by the msysgit gcc tools > available in msysgit, since CMake can't be build by VS right? Pau do you > think that is possible?
CMake can certainly be built by VC++ but you need CMake to do that, VC++-CMake cannot be bootstrapped.
Would it be OK to download a binary version of CMake instead of / in addition to the source? (I'm not familiar with the 'release.sh' stuff yet)
> It would be fun. Download the msysgit netinstaller, set it up, install it, > and after that, CMake is bootstrapped, and the visual studio .vcproj files > are generated and everyone (VS developers and msys developers) are ready to > go!
That'd be right, if I have understood what the netinstaller does (I've never used it yet).
-- Pau Garcia i Quiles http://www.elpauer.org (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer)