On 05.08.2015 09:03, Frank Mehnert wrote: > On Wednesday 05 August 2015 00:27:53 Maarten Hoes wrote: >> Also, this : >> >> On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 12:18 AM, Huihong Luo <huisi...@yahoo.com> wrote: >>> I ended up modifying a lot of places on .kmk files, and even vs 2010 >>> header files to make it to compile. >> >> Im certainly no dev, but it appears to me that the building procedure and >> toolchain for building on windows is in desperate need of some love and >> attention. > > VirtualBox builds very well on Windows if you use VC++ 2010 without any > modification. Therefore I wouldn't say there is a desperate need.
Let's rephrase this slightly. I agree that it would be excellent if it were easier to build VirtualBox on Windows. It is just not "desparate" enough that the core development team wants to spend limited resources on improving this. We would love to see patches coming from the community (preferably clean enough that we can incorporate them without having to spend a lot of useful development time studying and thinking about them) to improve this. And given that the people most likely to need this probably have the development skills to do it it should be realistic. (Sorry to say that I can't actually provide much technical guidance to anyone wanting to do that, as I develop almost exclusively on Linux. I am sure that other team members would be willing to answer reasonable questions though.) Regards, Michael -- ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG Michael Thayer Werkstrasse 24 VirtualBox engineering 71384 Weinstadt, Germany mailto:michael.tha...@oracle.com ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG Hauptverwaltung: Riesstraße 25, D-80992 München Registergericht: Amtsgericht München, HRA 95603 Komplementärin: ORACLE Deutschland Verwaltung B.V. Hertogswetering 163/167, 3543 AS Utrecht, Niederlande Handelsregister der Handelskammer Midden-Niederlande, Nr. 30143697 Geschäftsführer: Alexander van der Ven, Astrid Kepper, Val Maher _______________________________________________ vbox-dev mailing list vbox-dev@virtualbox.org https://www.virtualbox.org/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev
