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

[erwin at erwincoumans.com]

Hi Gilbert, 

Here are some more details of msvcgen.
But beware: I'm not asking you to do the initial setup of this 
autogeneration system :-) 

Main thing is that once it is setup, the autogeneration makes it easier to 
maintain projectfiles, for all systems (6/7/7.1/8 and future). 

The initial setup is not trivial. It requires unix, jam, perl, and 2 
template toolkits installed. Some links for convenience:
http://www.template-toolkit.org/
http://search.cpan.org/dist/AppConfig/
http://www.perforce.com/jam/jam.html
ftp://ftp.perforce.com/pub/jam/ 

 From then, you can just run jam msvcgen to autogenerate all. 

It is in Bullet sourcecode, download here:
http://www.continuousphysics.com/Bullet 

unzip Bullet and inspect msvc for output, and mk/ folder for templates. 

I'm sure most features can be built into the templates (like post and 
prebuild steps etc). I didnt write the system, I can get you in touch with 
the developers if you like. 

Thanks,
Erwin 

 


Gilbert, Joseph T. writes: 

> Is there an example jam makefile your using for the bullet project that
> you run? 
> 
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> 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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