LievenQ wrote:
The problem is that visual studio doesn't have a system like
pkg-config. To solve this, I was thinking about creating a pkg-config
like system for visual studio myself. The package files would be
simple visual c++ 2005 proprety sheets, so that they are fully
supported with visual studio by itself. These property sheets should
be placed in a folder, and my task will then look up packages in that
folder, and use the appropriate property sheets.
How are you planning on generating the property sheets? With
pkg-config, they're usually generated by the configure utility or similar.
Now I'm not sure in which folder I should place these property sheets
though. I could create a subfolder in the nant directory, but I don't
think that would be a good idea, because those files aren't really
part of nant itself. I could also create a folder in the root, but
that wouldn't be too polite to the user's system. Program Files maybe?
Anybody got another suggestion?
I think you hinted on the right direction above, when you said you were
thinking about creating a pkg-config like system. That means you should
be thinking in terms of win-pkg-config (to coin a name), instead of NAnt.
I'm also wondering why you think this is important or useful. It's
useful in the GNU configure/auto-conf, because there are many packages
generated that way, so that the configuration files can be provided with
the kit and installed into the pkg-config lib directory. I don't know
that there are many Visual C++ users who will be building against such
packages, but if there are, you need to use the config files that come
with them, i.e. pkg-config syntax, not property files. On the other
hand, if you're thinking about packages that are intended for VC++
development, I'd expect Visual Studio project and/or solution files to
be the approach.
Gary
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