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Re: Add scripts to generate projects for other buildsystems (MSVC vcproj, QMake)

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Sep 23, 2009, 20:37 UTC
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<alpine.DEB.1.00.0909232236490.4985@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
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Hi,
On Wed, 23 Sep 2009, Sebastian Schuberth wrote:
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> On Sep 16, 10:20 am, Marius Storm-Olsen <mstormo@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > These scripts generate projects for the MSVC IDE (.vcproj files) or
> > QMake (.pro files), based on the output of a 'make -n MSVC=1 V=1' run.
> >
> > This enables us to simply do the necesarry changes in the Makefile, and you
> > can update the other buildsystems by regenerating the files. Keeping the
> > other buildsystems up-to-date with main development.
> 
> I know I'm a little late with my comments as this patch set has
> already been merged to master. However, for future reference I'd like
> to point out that something similar could be archived by using e.g.
> CMake, and only maintaining the CMake project file. I'm not suggesting
> to actually switch to CMake at this time, but I wanted to point out
> that a guy called Pau Garcia i Quiles already seems to have created a
> preliminary CMakeLists.txt file for Git [1], and also tried to build
> Git for Windows using his CMake-generated MSVC project files.
> 
> [1] "CMake-ifying git", http://www.elpauer.org/?p=324

We actually discussed this, and I challenged Pau to provide a recipe (a la /src/openssl/release.sh) that builds, installs and commits CMake.

There was no response after that challenge.

Ciao, Dscho

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Message 23 of 50 in “Build Git with MSVC”
  1. 00/15 Build Git with MSVCMarius Storm-Olsen, Sep 16, 2009
  2. 01/15 Avoid declaration after statementMarius Storm-Olsen, Sep 16, 2009
  3. 02/15 Add define guards to compat/win32.hMarius Storm-Olsen, Sep 16, 2009
  4. 03/15 Change regerror() declaration from K&R style to ANSI C (C89)Marius Storm-Olsen, Sep 16, 2009
  5. 04/15 Set _O_BINARY as default fmode for both MinGW and MSVCMarius Storm-Olsen, Sep 16, 2009
  6. 05/15 Fix __stdcall placement and function prototypeMarius Storm-Olsen, Sep 16, 2009
  7. 06/15 Test for WIN32 instead of __MINGW32_Marius Storm-Olsen, Sep 16, 2009
  8. 07/15 Add empty header files for MSVC portMarius Storm-Olsen, Sep 16, 2009
  9. 08/15 Add MinGW header files to build git with MSVCMarius Storm-Olsen, Sep 16, 2009
  10. 09/15 Add platform files for MSVC portingMarius Storm-Olsen, Sep 16, 2009
  11. 10/15 Make usage of windows.h lean and meanMarius Storm-Olsen, Sep 16, 2009
  12. 11/15 Define strncasecmp and ftruncate for MSVCMarius Storm-Olsen, Sep 16, 2009
  13. 12/15 Add MSVC to MakefileMarius Storm-Olsen, Sep 16, 2009
  14. 13/15 Add README for MSVC buildMarius Storm-Olsen, Sep 16, 2009
  15. 14/15 Add scripts to generate projects for other buildsystems (MSVC vcproj, QMake)Marius Storm-Olsen, Sep 16, 2009
  16. 15/15 Tag GIT_VERSION when Git is built with MSVCMarius Storm-Olsen, Sep 16, 2009
  17. Johannes SixtSep 17, 2009
  18. Marius Storm-OlsenSep 18, 2009
  19. Johannes SixtSep 17, 2009
  20. Marius Storm-OlsenSep 18, 2009
  21. Johannes SixtSep 18, 2009
  22. Sebastian SchuberthSep 23, 2009
  23. Johannes SchindelinSep 23, 2009
  24. Marius Storm-OlsenSep 24, 2009
  25. Sebastian SchuberthSep 23, 2009
  26. Marius Storm-OlsenSep 23, 2009
  27. Frank LiSep 25, 2009
  28. Johannes SixtSep 16, 2009
  29. Alexey BorzenkovSep 16, 2009
  30. Johannes SixtSep 17, 2009
  31. Junio C HamanoSep 17, 2009
  32. Marius Storm-OlsenSep 17, 2009
  33. Johannes SixtSep 17, 2009
  34. Marius Storm-OlsenSep 17, 2009
  35. Johannes SixtSep 17, 2009
  36. Marius Storm-OlsenSep 17, 2009
  37. Alexey BorzenkovSep 17, 2009
  38. Marius Storm-OlsenSep 17, 2009
  39. Alexey BorzenkovSep 17, 2009
  40. Johannes SixtSep 17, 2009
  41. Marius Storm-OlsenSep 17, 2009
  42. Alexey BorzenkovSep 17, 2009
  43. Johannes SixtSep 17, 2009
  44. 04/15 Set _O_BINARY as default fmode for both MinGW and MSVCMarius Storm-Olsen, Sep 17, 2009
  45. Johannes SixtSep 17, 2009
  46. Erik Faye-LundSep 16, 2009
  47. Marius Storm-OlsenSep 16, 2009
  48. Sebastian SchuberthSep 23, 2009
  49. Erik Faye-LundSep 25, 2009
  50. 04/15 Set _O_BINARY as default fmode for both MinGW and MSVCMarius Storm-Olsen, Sep 17, 2009

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