On Mon, 2010-06-21 at 10:19 +0100, andrew.mar...@uk.bnpparibas.com wrote: > I have just tried to build activemq-cpp 3.2.0 for Microsoft-Windows (XP > SP3) using Visual Studio 2005 (aka vc8) but it does not build. It looks > like the directory vs2005-build has gone missing. > > Copying the one from 3.1.0 into 3.2.0 does not work either. It fails to > find the command msbuild, whatever that is. > > I would to see activemq-cpp use a platform-independent build system. There > are several to choose from. This would make it easier to support multiple > platforms, particularly Microsoft-Windows as well as Unix-like systems. > The one I use is MPC, MakeProjectCreator. I have heard that CMake is also > popular. I dont mind very much which one is chosen but I think it would be > useful to choose one of them, rather than maintain different build systems > manually. If other peole don't mind which build system is used and don't > mind moving to a cross-platform build system then I volunteer to provide > MPC files. If we moved in this direction we could still include the > generated Makefiles in the distro so that it compiles for Unix out of the > box. > > Regards,
Cross platform build tools are a myth really, the CMake and the other tool don't provide support of legacy platforms like older HP-UX and AIX that are required for ActiveMQ-CPP, the Autoconf tools work across every unix OS we've needed so far. You're welcome to come up with a solution for creating Windows build files and contribute that to the project, the simplest approach would probably be to create a set of MSBuild files that could build the library and other samples and test exe's, that would enable the command line tools in the Windows 7 SDK to build the library. Regards -- Tim Bish Open Source Integration: http://fusesource.com ActiveMQ in Action: http://www.manning.com/snyder/ Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/tabish121 My Blog: http://timbish.blogspot.com/
