Re: [Crawl-ref-discuss] Cmake and MSVC support

2011-05-21 Thread hurcan solter
well since the chatter about the subject ebbed away here is a reminder .So what is the verdict? I am perfectly okay with creating a new cmake branch and pushing the changes over there although some of the patches I've sent should be applied to master branch also. In the meantime I've succesfull

Re: [Crawl-ref-discuss] Cmake and MSVC support

2011-05-15 Thread Jude
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 8:16 AM, hurcan solter wrote: >   They are certainly numerous.That's because I think incremental small changes >  are good practice to follow for obvious reasons but I wouldn't call > them exceptionally  significant. >  If you take time to inspect  them you'll see some of t

Re: [Crawl-ref-discuss] Cmake and MSVC support

2011-05-15 Thread Raphael Langella
2011/5/16 hurcan solter > > > On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 7:20 AM, William Tanksley, Jr < > wtanksle...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I've heard very good things about CMake. You might want to explain a > > little about why you chose it and what it can do for us, though, aside > > from the obvious one of

Re: [Crawl-ref-discuss] Cmake and MSVC support

2011-05-15 Thread hurcan solter
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 7:20 AM, William Tanksley, Jr wrote: > > I've heard very good things about CMake. You might want to explain a > little about why you chose it and what it can do for us, though, aside > from the obvious one of supporting MSVC (if that were all it did, it > wouldn't be worth

Re: [Crawl-ref-discuss] Cmake and MSVC support

2011-05-15 Thread hurcan solter
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 5:44 AM, Joshua Thomas wrote: > Just out of curiosity, what's the problem with using MinGW or cygwin? > Well my point is accessibility. I don't know how to use the gnu toolchain My favorite editor is MSVC IDE. I've never used valgrind ,I roll with AQtime. I just see no p

Re: [Crawl-ref-discuss] Cmake and MSVC support

2011-05-15 Thread hurcan solter
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 5:56 AM, Jude wrote: > > We definitely appreciate your efforts! While we have some > Windows-based developers on the team, I don't believe that any of them > use MSVC for compilation purposes. > Thanks for the kind words. > However, on that note, is there really any nee

Re: [Crawl-ref-discuss] Cmake and MSVC support

2011-05-14 Thread William Tanksley, Jr
hurcan solter wrote: >  Crawl has a MSVC port but it doesn't work and sadly it's a dead > weight at the moment .Fearing it will sink > into oblivion like its DOS predecessor (failed joke attempt) ,I've > modified to source code to compile on msvc > and painstakingly ported from GNU build system to

Re: [Crawl-ref-discuss] Cmake and MSVC support

2011-05-14 Thread Joshua Thomas
Just out of curiosity, what's the problem with using MinGW or cygwin? On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 10:34 PM, hurcan solter wrote: > Hello all; > > I am a windows developer that insanely enjoys crawl, so I wanted  to > contribute as much as I am able to. > But having almost no Linux experience and seei

Re: [Crawl-ref-discuss] Cmake and MSVC support

2011-05-14 Thread Jude
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 12:34 PM, hurcan solter wrote: > Hello all; > > I am a windows developer that insanely enjoys crawl, so I wanted  to > contribute as much as I am able to. > But having almost no Linux experience and seeing that MSVC doesn't get > enough love, I've decided to > do something

[Crawl-ref-discuss] Cmake and MSVC support

2011-05-14 Thread hurcan solter
Hello all; I am a windows developer that insanely enjoys crawl, so I wanted to contribute as much as I am able to. But having almost no Linux experience and seeing that MSVC doesn't get enough love, I've decided to do something about it. Crawl has a MSVC port but it doesn't work and sadly it's