At the Highlands Gathering, we dreamed about how nice it would be to have a sort of master build source that could generate Makefiles for Unix, Xcode project files for Mac, and VC6 project files for Windows. If we had such a setup, then you wouldn't modify your (imported) VS7/8 project files; rather, you would go modify the master build source. (Presumably, any changes you'd need to make would need to be done for all three platforms, such as addition of new source files, etc.)
For now, I believe that Robert modifies the Makefiles, Xcode files, and VS project files manually, which is painful. Although I'm primarily a Windows user, I have no real need to build within the VS IDE, so if there were a command line tool for building I would have no need for the VS project files. As long as that command line tool also generated debug info, I could still use the VS IDE for debugging. Now, if all other Windows users felt as I did, along with the Mac users, then we could replace the current build system with a single command line tool that works on all platforms. That'd be nice from a maintenance perspective. -Paul > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Anders Backman > Sent: Friday, November 17, 2006 5:00 AM > To: osg users > Subject: [osg-users] Slightly OT: Version handling VisualStudio > > Hi all. > > Im wondering how people handle the fact that each VS version > upgrades the project files making it effectively impossible > to support several versions of VisualStudio, unless: > > -You manually reflect changes back into .dsw (VC6) -Find a > tool that converts .sln/.vcproj (in VC8) back to VC6. > - Use an external make system (CMake, SCONS) > > I have been using a tool called prjconverter which could > handle the conversion between VC7 and VC6, but it cant handle > the new project files. > > Now is there a good solution, except start using CMake or > SCONS or some other external make system? > > /Anders > -- > > > ________________________________________________________________ > Anders Backman Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > HPC2N/VRlab Phone: +46 (0)90-786 9936 > Umea university Cellular: +46 (0)70-392 64 67 > S-901 87 UMEA SWEDEN Fax: +46 90-786 6126 > http://www.cs.umu.se/~andersb > _______________________________________________ > 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/
