Re: [Libevent-users] Building with Visual Studio

2009-05-18 Thread Dan Kegel
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 10:37 PM, James Mansion wrote: >> Seems to work well for our needs across win/mac/linux. > > How odd that it creates a scons file on Linux.  scons is supposed to solve > cross-platform building on its own. We tried scons on all three platforms, but it just wasn't a good fi

Re: [Libevent-users] Building with Visual Studio

2009-05-17 Thread James Mansion
Dan Kegel wrote: Seems to work well for our needs across win/mac/linux. How odd that it creates a scons file on Linux. scons is supposed to solve cross-platform building on its own. I was using scons before I tried waf, and haven't gone back. James __

Re: [Libevent-users] Building with Visual Studio

2009-05-17 Thread Dan Kegel
On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Nick Mathewson wrote: >> Would you consider using cmake? > > Looks interesting, but for the short term (i.e., the 2.0.x timeframe), > maintaining and improving the autotools-based system we have now seems > like it will be way less effort than switching. This is c

Re: [Libevent-users] Building with Visual Studio

2009-05-17 Thread Shannon Morahan
Hi Guys 1.4.11 that incorporated the changes to the build system worked out of the box on my VS2008. - Original Message - From: Nick Mathewson To: Peter Ross Cc: libevent-users@monkey.org Sent: Sun, 17 May 2009 02:01:45 +1000 (EST) Subject: Re: [Libevent-users] Building with Visual

Re: [Libevent-users] Building with Visual Studio

2009-05-16 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 12:01:30PM +1000, Peter Ross wrote: > On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Nick Mathewson wrote: > > (Also, once 2.0.2-alpha is out, somebody needs to work on decent > > project files for the 2.0.x series. ?The ones we have now are kind of > > stupid and crufty.) > > > Would yo

Re: [Libevent-users] Building with Visual Studio

2009-05-16 Thread James Mansion
Nick Mathewson wrote: [How it's _supposed_ to work is this: on everywhere that has a shell that can handle autoconf, the autoconf script detects the system settings and generates a config.h file, which gets post-processed into a event-config.h automatically. On anywhere without a shell that can

Re: [Libevent-users] Building with Visual Studio

2009-05-15 Thread Rush Manbert
Hi Nick, On May 14, 2009, at 6:41 PM, Nick Mathewson wrote: On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 04:58:02PM -0700, Rush Manbert wrote: Hi, I have done some searching and have read a couple of posts on this subject, but nothing that quite answers my questions. I am writing a Windows port of the Thrift RPC

Re: [Libevent-users] Building with Visual Studio

2009-05-14 Thread Peter Ross
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Nick Mathewson wrote: > (Also, once 2.0.2-alpha is out, somebody needs to work on decent > project files for the 2.0.x series.  The ones we have now are kind of > stupid and crufty.) > Would you consider using cmake? I know KDE switched to using cmake, because amo

Re: [Libevent-users] Building with Visual Studio

2009-05-14 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 04:58:02PM -0700, Rush Manbert wrote: > Hi, > > I have done some searching and have read a couple of posts on this > subject, but nothing that quite answers my questions. > > I am writing a Windows port of the Thrift RPC library > (http://incubator.apache.org/thrift/ )

Re: [Libevent-users] Building with Visual Studio

2009-05-14 Thread William Ahern
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 04:58:02PM -0700, Rush Manbert wrote: > I have two questions: > > 1) Why doesn't libevent as released just build in Visual Studio if > this was so easy to accomplish for me? Or have I missed something? I don't maintain libevent, but I'd guess any issues exist for the sa

Re: [Libevent-users] Building with Visual Studio

2009-05-14 Thread Niels Provos
Hi Rush, neither Nick nor I use Windows as our primary development platform. That sometimes means that changes are introduced that break the Windows build without us noticing. Although, I believe this particular problem might already be fixed in svn. On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Rush Manber

[Libevent-users] Building with Visual Studio

2009-05-14 Thread Rush Manbert
Hi, I have done some searching and have read a couple of posts on this subject, but nothing that quite answers my questions. I am writing a Windows port of the Thrift RPC library (http://incubator.apache.org/thrift/ ) that will build in Visual Studio with no Cygwin or other *nix/Posix emul