On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 10:23, William A. Rowe Jr. <[email protected]> wrote: > On 6/24/2011 5:38 AM, Branko Čibej wrote: >> On 23.06.2011 23:36, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: >>> anyone who wants to beat me to it, my initial thought is to borrow >>> from the subversion project. >> >> Subversion has a build setup that does exatly what you're describing, >> i.e., generates almost any flavour of MSVC project files (and Unix >> makefiles) from a generic source tree description. Sure it's not SCons, >> but I don't see the SCons build working on Windows anyway. >> >> So why would APR not want to adopt a build system that's been working >> just fine for a decade? > > That's my thought, too.
Some of this was started in build/gen-build.py years ago. We use that on Unix today, but with some more work, it could be extended to generate Windows files. Cheers, -g
