[Bf-committers] MSVC project files end of life

[Campbell Barton]

just a note that the CMake files building RNA is not perfect on linux
with make, for some reason it generates the rna_*_gen.c files twice,
looked into it a while back when adding the partial updates but
eventually gave up since its generation is very quick and it only
builds them once but this could be a related problem with MSVC.

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 3:07 AM, Andrea Weikert <andrea at aweikert.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> While I have in the past had good experience with the projectfiles and
> they worked well for me, I agree for the following reasons:
>
> 1. The effort to keep them up-to-date and working has increased by a
> considerable amount due to the many and fast changes with Blender 2.5
> development and it still doesn't seem to slow down. I haven't checked
> recently, but I believe they still don't install the files in the new
> locations and to be consistent also work would be required to move them
> into the build_folders. (This btw. would need to be fixed for the cmake
> files on Windows as well, but I think is much less work)
> 2. I have found myself with less time for Blender development due to my
> day job and I think I'd rather spend my time developing something rather
> than maintaining a build system that is probably the least used.
> 3. The project files generated by the cmake files are not perfect and I
> definitely had some linking issues where nobody could help
> (WITH_INTERNATIONAL), so I had to disable that. Still I think that
> probably it is better to spend time improving the cmake files rather
> than trying to keep the vcproject files up to date. Also with more
> people using the cmake files hopefully they can be further improved and
> fixed where necessary.
>
> So +1 from me.
>
> Andrea
>
>> Today I spent some more time reparing the MSVC project files after
>> audaspace library update. While doing that I tested the project files
>> generated by cmake and found them perfectly fine, also for debug builds.
>> I see no reason to keep maintaining the old project files. If noone
>> objects, I will remove them. Andrea, is it ok with you?
>>
>> /benoit
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