Keeping Gav in the loop ----- Original Message ----- > On 6/23/2011 4:30 PM, Igor Galić wrote: > > Hey guys, > > > > apr and apr-util are now for most Unix flavours except Solaris > > on ci http://ci.apache.org/builders/ > > > > Gavin would like to proceed with the Windows build next but it > > appears that the current trunk needs VC6 and doesn't work out > > of the box on VC10 - if at all. > > > > http://apr.apache.org/compiling_win32.html seems to support > > that suspicion. Is this the status quo or just a lacking on > > the documentation front? > > Trunk doesn't work out of the box, because we've avoided checking in > any VC6-exported .mak/.dep files; these are likely to stay in flux > as 2.0 is further polished and cleaned up. Every .dsp commit would > need to be chased by a (louder) .mak commit, and the dependencies > can also remain in flux. Alternately, there is cmake logic here > already that should work, but I haven't been actively doing anything > with it. > > The right answer is to drop .dsp, and figure out a better makefile > representation/generator for msvc, and perhaps offer some vcproj > based solution for developers who are exploring the apr API. It's > something I had given thought to already, and will spend cycles on > this once I've cleaned up my currently overfilled plate a bit. For > anyone who wants to beat me to it, my initial thought is to borrow > from the subversion project. And for ./configure detection, note > that vbs windows scripting host is available out-of-the-box all the > time on supported win32 OS's (something that wasn't true when we > last considered and discarded the idea of leveraging it). >
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