[Bf-committers] MSVC7 users rejoice!

[Gilbert, Joseph]

I like this it looks great.  I don't know what everyone else thinks
though. I personally like the idea of having an XML file or something
that lists stuff like:
- project
....files
....compiler paths
....libs
....linker paths
....dependencies
And then have a script which builds a set of project files for you from
this information. That way when we do drastic changes to the source code
all the builds will work equally well without worry.  

*PS Sorry for the previous mail banter :( (won't happen again)
- Yes I would like to update the README about the msvc7 build and it's
compilcations.

**PSS freetype 2.0.5 is what FTGL 2.0.11 is compiled against.


-----Original Message-----
From: bf-committers-bounces at projects.blender.org
[mailto:bf-committers-bounces at projects.blender.org] On Behalf Of Jacques
Beaurain
Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2005 7:06 PM
To: bf-blender developers
Subject: Re: [Bf-committers] MSVC7 users rejoice!

Here is my big thank you!.

Finally the MSVC7 projects get a much needed update. And thank you for
applying the Python debug patch too.

Just to let you know what happened to my attempts to autogenerate the
files. I made a bit of progress using XML generation using Xalan to
parse XSLT files that takes generic XML files (describing project
names, files etc.) My plan was to generate the generic XML files by
plugging some Python fuctions into the scons scripts. These functions
would also scan the local directories for headers and add them to the
generated XML. The headers are useful in the project files for class,
structure and general definition browsing in the IDE.

After that a simple batch would be run on the XML that spits out sln
and vcproj (and possibly dsp and dsw) files at the version that you
specify. It would do this by switching XLS templates that "styles" the
XML files into the chosen project file formats.

Before I really started having any real successes I discovered
something this weekend that made me abandon that approach. What I
found is called MPC (free open source, written in Perl) and it can be
found here:

http://www.ociweb.com/product/mpc/ 

I am reading the following at the moment and will redirect my efforts
to this from now on, I really think this looks promising for realising
those pipe dreams;):

http://download.ociweb.com/TAO-1.3a/TAO1.3aMakeProjectCreator.pdf

The format of the files looks simple enough to update and maintain by
people on other platforms and system when they need to add new files.
I may even try to generate them using scons as I originally planned.
The other option (and possibly even better) would be to use the
automatical source finding features of MPC instead. The only
requirement for that is that any sources that should not be compiled
(I think old sources in physics stuff is an example). I'll keep you
posted..

Cheers,
Jacques
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