Daniel Gibson wrote: > Am 21.05.2011 01:34, schrieb Andrej Mitrovic: >> What's there to configuring visual studio? You just open a solution >> file and hit compile. If there are any dependencies you usually >> download the libs and put them in some subfolder. >> > > I don't have much experience with visual studio, but I've read that > using a project from one version in another (newer) version may not > always be painless, e.g. > http://twitter.com/#!/ID_AA_Carmack/status/45616436995039232
Going from one version of a *solution* to the next usually just works. I expect tech5 to be somewhat more complex though. What usually doesn't work is going from one compiler version to the next, at least for C++. 'Managed' .Net is a different story. > And how well do projects from a professional version work in the free > (Visual Studio Express) version? That should work, the professional version is mostly about extra ide features, the basics and the toolchain is exactly the same. >> At least that's my experience. >> >> Now compare that to having to follow that gigantic tutorial for >> compiling GDC using msys. That's not really a fair comparison, GDC is very complex. There are also a lot of OSS projects which are much less arcane than what GNU usually does. Windows has it's share of complex build setups too, I believe the visual studio shell is such an example. I generally also find the boatloads of msbuild / nant xml scripts to be pretty incomprehensible when you need to work with them if something doesn't work.