Stephan Bergmann wrote:

> On 02/03/10 15:38, Mathias Bauer wrote:
>> I tend to agree that - whatever we will do - we probably won't get rid
>> of cygwin. Where we have to get rid of it is the building of the
>> "normal" modules.
>> 
>> As an example, if a developer is going to work on "sw", he might want to
>> build sw and all c++ libraries it depends on (well, without the external
>> ones). Being able to do that in Visual Studio would be a tremendeous
>> achievement. But using Visual Studio as a "launcher" for cygwin shells
>> is probably not what we want here. So the build of "normal" C++
>> libraries should run inside VS completely.
> 
> Not sure what your scenario is where the developer "might want to build 
> [just] sw and all c++ libraries it depends on," but doing all of that 
> strictly inside VS would not work if any of those C++ libraries in turn 
> depended on something not buildable strictly inside VS (e.g., thinking 
> of things like flex/bison/idlc/cppumaker/whatever invocations).

Well, "all" was perhaps too much. I was aiming on what you usually work
with. A lot of common build scenarios require nothing special, just the
"usual suspects". Many modules could be build with Visual Studio.

That's nothing for a complete build, but very useful for the daily work
of the developers. That would definitely be a benefit.

Regards,
Mathias

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