Hi Tor, On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 1:06 AM, Tor Lillqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmm, so you are planning on still using libtool even if you compile > with MSVC? I thought your plan was to build it completely from the > IDE, i.e. create project and solution files etc.
Sorry if I wasn't that clear. I'm interested in building it with the MS VC toolchain, not necessarily with Visual Studio. :-) I don't even have VS (unless, of course, I get my employer to allow me to work on it, then I'd have access to VS - but even then, we don't use VS to build anything at work, we actually use cygwin, but with MS's compilers). > Or at least to use > nmake and its makefiles. Is it then only because you want to be able > to use the Visual Studio debugger that you want to compile ORBit2 for > Windows with the MS compiler? You do know that one can already build > it using mingw, right? I know it's possible to build it with mingw. But I started looking at this because we're looking for something like ORBit for a project at work. We don't want C++, and so far we've been playing with ILU (which I really don't like very much, even though it works, for some value of works). And at work, on Windows, we only use MS compilers, and I don't see that changing anytime soon. I actually have very little experience with VS (even less than with autotools), so at this point it's much easier for me to just put together a few custom makefiles to make sure I can compile things and they work. > Using libtool, and relying on some Unixish build environment like MSYS > or Interix, is bound to mean that at least some potential developers > won't be interested in taking part. Yeah, I understand that. It's just that I'm not really a Windows developer, and my interest in doing this is not related to integration with VS, just in using MS's compiler toolchain. -- Marcelo Vanzin [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Life's too short to drink cheap beer." _______________________________________________ orbit-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orbit-list
