Hi Ben, I'm not yet using VS8. However, to avoid the maintenance burden of essentially identical parallel project files, I'd lean toward continuing to use the existing VC6 .dsp/.dsw files in VS8 but simply build into a separate OSG filesystem, rather than peer subdirectories with slightly different names.
-- mew Ben Discoe wrote: > Thanks Gordon. That's what i was afraid of. > > So, in order to support my users, who need to build on OSG, and who might > have either VC7 or VC8, i clearly need to provide two sets of .lib/.dll > files. > >>From what i can tell, this isn't supported in the OSG .sln/.vcproj files > (yet). There isn't a VC8 .sln which puts the incompatible binaries in a > separate folder (e.g. lib/win32-vc8, and bin/win32-vc8). Or has somebody > already done this? Mike Weiblen maybe? Somebody? > > If not, i can volunteer to do the work and produce a > OpenSceneGraph-1.2/VisualStudio/OpenSceneGraph-vc8.sln which keeps the > binaries (intermediate and output folders) from mixing/colliding. > > -Ben > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Gordon Tomlinson >>Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 3:10 PM >>To: 'osg users' >> >>Hi Ben >> >>DO NOT mix DLL's and Lib's from VC6.0 and V.7x or VC8.0, >>while some people have managed to get away with they are >>very very lucky.. >> >>Our experience and advice is simple DO NOT mix, build ALL >>you DLL's, Libs, EXE's in the same compiler [...] > > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Ben Discoe >>Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 6:56 PM >>To: [email protected] >> >>I'd like to provide a single set of pre-compiled libraries >>(including OSG) for people who are going to link their >>projects with them. These people might be using VC7.1 or VC8 >>(aka. "Microsoft Visual C++ Studio .NET 2005 >>[Standard/Professional/Express] Edition 8.0") >> >>In most cases, working with VC8, you can use .lib/.dll that >>were built with VC7.1 (or before). >> >>But in the case of OSG, it appears to not _quite_ work. > > > _______________________________________________ > osg-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://openscenegraph.net/mailman/listinfo/osg-users > http://www.openscenegraph.org/ > _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://openscenegraph.net/mailman/listinfo/osg-users http://www.openscenegraph.org/
