From: Reece Dunn <msclrhd@googlemail.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:28:09 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] Enable compilation by Makefile for the MSVC toolchain
Message-ID: <3f4fd2640908180928k1be7db20vdc81b5acc482f693@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4A8AD561.1020303@gmail.com>

2009/8/18 Johan 't Hart <johanthart@gmail.com>:
> Marius Storm-Olsen schreef:
>>
>> From: Marius Storm-Olsen <mstormo@gmail.com>
>>
>> By using GNU Make we can also compile with the MSVC toolchain.
>> This is a rudementary patch, only meant as an RFC for now!!
>>
>
> Would this mean that only the MSVC toolchain is used to build git in batch?
> Or does GNU Make create a .vcproj file like CMake? Because that ofcource is
> the whole purpose of using CMake. One can use the Visual Studio IDE to hack
> on git.

... unless you add a file to the vcproj, or change the project
settings: you'll need to update the CMake file and the Make file (for
the POSIX builds), otherwise you're going to break things.

- Reece