Hi,
On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:14:55 +0530, M Rahaman wrote:
When I build WebKit code for Windows using VS2008, there are several
issues I am facing
1. We need to re-generate the webkit.sln file with VS2008
2. VS2008 has strict warning checking, because all the .vcproj has
Treat warning as errors, the compilation fails. So the work around
is to modify the .vcproj file to disable Treat warning as
errors,
3. We also need to change Tools/Scripts/parallelcl to provide correct
path for cl.exe (while building from Cygwin)
So, I just want to know if other people working on Windows port also
facing the same issue. It becomes even more problematic when I am
updating my code I get svn conflict in my .vcproj files etc.
because
of #2 above.
If everyone is facing the same issue, may be it is a better idea to
commit this patch with the constraint that we will no more support
VS2005. Want to know other's opinion on this..
Since every Visual Studio version uses it's own CRT (MSVCRT80.DLL for
VS2005) and the code depends on additonal libraries (look into
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Apple\Apple Application Support) which
need the CRT too. Mixing different CRTs can cause strange errors, so
it's not a good idea.
IMHO it might be a better idea to get away from the vcproj files and
move to a meta build system, so everybody can choose the VS version on
it's own. I already did a big part of a CMake based system at [1] which
also does not require the cygwin environment. It's possible to use the
Win32 version of the different tools, like in the WinCE port [2].
[1] https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72816
[2] http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/WinCE
-- Patrick
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