> Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2006 10:34:46 +0200 > From: Krzysztof Nosek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: make-w32@gnu.org > > of course calling cl.exe, link.exe and all the stuff directly _is_ an option. > But, sometimes, when you use such tool as Visual Studio, you want to have > projects (.vcproj) and solution files (.sln) configured so that you can > build-on-request during development from inside the VS's IDE (or your boss > wants, or your fellow developer does, ...). > > So, these VS files contain (mostly) all information concerning build issues of > given solution. But it's only devenv who knows how to deal with it.
Okay, but then why invoke devenv from Make? > BTW, Previous versions of VS used to have feature of generating makefile > (nmakish one) given solution file. But that feature disappeared many years > ago... Really? I use VS 6 sometimes, and the feature is still there. What version dropped it? _______________________________________________ Make-w32 mailing list Make-w32@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/make-w32
