Hi, > -----Original Message----- > From: curl-library <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Daniel > Stenberg via curl-library > Sent: Saturday, 5 September 2020 15:16 > To: libcurl hacking <[email protected]> > Cc: Daniel Stenberg <[email protected]> > Subject: time to remove Visual Studio project files? > > I'd like to get a better feel for the need to ship the visual studio project > files we > currently host in the project/ directory. > > Do you use them? Why isn't generating these files using cmake good enough?
I'm currently using them (slightly patched). nmake/winbuild is currently not an option as it lacks a lot of options. The main reasons for not using CMake are/were, in order of importance: 1) It wasn't possible to set the target Windows for a long time This is now fixed with https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/295ea5f641cb3d6ca44bb949e63bd1070835a872. 2) HTTP_ONLY leaves SMB enabled See https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/3770 for the reverted fix. It could probably be revived now that https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/f504f18641ebedde8e8b3805472267efa9a9b528 has landed. 3) Tests passing with VS project-built curl were failing with CMake-built curl in configurations important to me This should be fixed with https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/f504f18641ebedde8e8b3805472267efa9a9b528. I still have to verify if all tests in all configurations are passing now though. 4) It still outputs a big fat warning on every CMake run that it's poorly maintained, so it just feels like it's experimental and not the recommended way to build 5) It's easy to automatically patch the XML project files to compile with all warnings enabled (/Wall, corresponds to clang's -Weverything) and only the expected warnings disabled as they are per Visual Studio version I could live with /W4 though. I'm happy to check if we can migrate to CMake, but I'm not sure if a week will be enough for a final decision. It might take two, or maybe even longer if further fixes to curl's CMake system are needed. Marcel ------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: https://cool.haxx.se/list/listinfo/curl-library Etiquette: https://curl.haxx.se/mail/etiquette.html
