On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 8:40 AM, Stefan Eissing <stefan.eiss...@greenbytes.de> wrote: >> Am 16.11.2017 um 14:03 schrieb William A Rowe Jr <wr...@rowe-clan.net>: >> >> So, we won't be able to ignore this for long... >> >> I'd propose we migrate dsp to the oldest supported vcproj format (my cvtdsp >> can help get these flags right) for those who like the IDE, until we show >> that cmake generated vcproj files work just fine. Hopefully this occurs >> prior to beta. >> >> Drop .mak and .dsp files and let cmake create make files and any alternate >> gui representations anyone needs, e.g. eclipse, code warrior etc etc etc. >> >> Thoughts? > > I am not able to contribute to the Windows build discussion. For the sake of > understanding, however, > we have currently: > * our AP enriched automake variant > * cmake > * some version of visual-c/-studio project setup > * a netware build > ? > > Is that a complete list? And some Windows people use cmake and some the > vcproj files?
Perfect summary. Note that Netware maintainers have conceded that if we want to proceed with a newer generation of compiler and OS features that cannot be supported, that it seemed reasonable to drop Netware at some point. Also note Netware build files can also be generated from cmake (we likely need to add some more functionality to make that happen to select Netware-specific sources and avoid some Win32 sources, but I'm already hoping to support Unix via cmake as well, so doing both at once doesn't seem like an extra headache.) I'm not speaking for our active Netware maintainers, so this position might have changed. Some like the vcproj files for building. Others, like myself, hate building a distribution from a gui, but really like visual studio/vcproj for debugging; I'm much more efficient there than in gdb, and features like api/variable/struct member autocompletion make development simpler for the dyslexic. Not all that different than Eclipse and similar. Whether we provide them or can leverage cmake's vcproj creation logic, there is absolutely demand for these to be available somehow.
