[Bf-committers] Re: msvcgen: Autogeneration of Visual Studioprojectfiles (all versions)

[erwin at erwincoumans.com]

I think it is better to discuss internal details of msvcgen directly, not on 
the list. So expect some email soon :-) 

Erwin 

 


Gilbert, Joseph T. writes: 

> How do you setup pre and post build events? 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:bf-committers-bounces at projects.blender.org] On Behalf Of
> erwin at erwincoumans.com
> Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 2:37 PM
> To: bf-blender developers
> Subject: [Bf-committers] Re: msvcgen: Autogeneration of Visual
> Studioprojectfiles (all versions) 
> 
> 
> The system works great, and just like now you have the projectfile
> checked 
> into cvs.  
> 
> Basically, instead of manually making all the changes for each version 
> (6/7/7.1/8) you run 'jam msvcgen' and it creates updated projectfiles.  
> 
> Then you simply commit the change for ALL versions.
> Erwin  
> 
> 
> Gilbert, Joseph T. writes:  
> 
>> How does the sytem work?
>> Do you have to commit all the projectfile versions to cvs?
>> When do you run the jam makefile to generate the projectfiles?
>> When I modify a projectfile I can't simply commit the change. I would
>> need to...?  
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: bf-committers-bounces at projects.blender.org
>> [mailto:bf-committers-bounces at projects.blender.org] On Behalf Of
>> erwin at erwincoumans.com
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 1:48 PM
>> To: bf-blender developers
>> Subject: [Bf-committers] msvcgen: Autogeneration of Visual Studio
>> projectfiles (all versions)  
>> 
>> Hi,   
>> 
>> There is a way to auto generate MSVC 6/7/8 Visual Studio files. I am
>> very 
>> happy with a contribution to Bullet that came from Crystal Space.
>> It is jam based, and requires some other files, but once it is setup,
> it
>> is 
>> much easier to maintain then manually updating. It even handles 
>> dependencies.   
>> 
>> If you like, you can see some example here:
>> http://svn.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.cgi/bullet/bullet-1.5b/msvc/   
>> 
>> Is there interest to add such system, purely to make the MSVC files
> more 
>> 
>> maintainable?   
>> 
>> Erwin   
>> 
>> By the way, I did the first msvc files for Blender back in 2000, all 
>> manually. Such system would have been very useful back then!   
>> 
>> 
>> Tom M writes:   
>> 
>>> Scott,   
>>> 
>>> "Is .NET the same as vc 7?  Sorry, I am somewhat new to VC - I
> usually
>>> use either KDevelop or CodeBlocks."   
>>> 
>>> You can use cygwin (gcc tools and posix environment for windows) and
>>> CodeBlocks on windows pretty much the same as you would on linux.   
>>> 
>>> LetterRip
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