On 11.02.2014 22:18, Thorsten Schöning wrote: > > Why do you think that? I've thought that besides getting apr and > apr-util in the right directory it's more or less a simple "mvn > compile" or something?
Except if I missed something, it's really not that simple. With ant, you have the choice to generate (a) Visual studio project, or (b) compile directly the source (aka make). But it's first required to add ant-contrib + a slightly patched version of cpptask. (a) makes visual studio 6 projects, which cannot be used by Visual studio versions above 2008; so you have to convert them with a VS2008 before being able to build with 2010, 2012 or later. The (b) path is more straightforward (direct call to the compiler In both case, the unit-test are not built :-/ -- flo