[Bf-committers] VC_7 Projectfiles Revision

[Joseph Gilbert]

Jacques Beaurain wrote:

>Hi Ton,
>
>I have an idea that I'm working on that would enable me to generate
>the VC7 files using the scons files and a python script. The vcproj
>files are just XML with a fairly simple format. I will try to get it
>done quickly and will happily accept the job of maintaining VC7 builds
>once it works.
>
>Jacques
>
>Jacques
>On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 12:27:20 +0100, Ton Roosendaal <ton at blender.org> wrote:
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>>Hi,
>>
>>We need a new official maintainer of the VC7 files.
>>Joseph; you got cvs access already, isn't this a nice job for you? :)
>>
>>-Ton-
>>
>>On 9 Feb, 2005, at 12:00, Jacques Beaurain wrote:
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>>>I too feel your pain.
>>>
>>>I recommend using scons for building using MSVC7 and just use the
>>>project files for browsing the sources. You will still be able to
>>>debug using the IDE etc. because the scons build does the same as the
>>>vcproj compiles would (or should ;)
>>>
>>>Here are some pending tracker items you may want to read (and obtain
>>>patches from) to get the scons build going for you.
>>>
>>>http://projects.blender.org/tracker/index.php?
>>>func=detail&aid=2130&group_id=9&atid=125
>>>http://projects.blender.org/tracker/index.php?
>>>func=detail&aid=2131&group_id=9&atid=125
>>>
>>>I just posted another patch in #2131 against the current CVS build
>>>that also includes the patch for #2130 in case there is any problems
>>>applying the earlier patches.
>>>
>>>Also, you may want to look at my earlier post (today) about ftgl and
>>>MAC encodings to get your build going.
>>>
>>>Cheers,
>>>Jacques
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I love this idea. I was thinking about something similar myself. One of 
the biggest problems with the build process is that we have so many it's 
hard for everyone to remember to change them all (Or even know how to do 
it in the case of the windows specific build files). I think it would be 
great to see a script (possibly pythonish) generate the VC6/VC7/Scons 
files. (Dont know about the make files - most of that is updating 
dependencies). That way a single update to an XML file would be 
sufficient to update the project. Then as part of the pre-build you 
could generate the build files from XML. (Am I dreaming a pipe dream here?)