Re: Generating Visual Studio project files by default
On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 9:47 PM, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote: > On Wednesday, May 25, 2016 at 9:00:48 AM UTC+10, Gregory Szorc wrote: > > This change was tracked in bug 1275297. Bug 1275419 tracks a follow-up to > > allow disabling their generation. > > so when is xcode support coming too ? :) > > Patches welcome. I've heard bad stories about Xcode scalability to large projects. It might be prudent to Eclipse or another IDE on OS X. ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
Re: Generating Visual Studio project files by default
On Wednesday, May 25, 2016 at 9:00:48 AM UTC+10, Gregory Szorc wrote: > This change was tracked in bug 1275297. Bug 1275419 tracks a follow-up to > allow disabling their generation. so when is xcode support coming too ? :) ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
Re: Generating Visual Studio project files by default
On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 11:22 PM, Wei-Cheng Pan wrote: > This is great! > > Just few questions: > > Can we debug firefox in the IDE during mochitest? > > i.e.: ./mach mochitest --debugger=devenv > I think we'll need some magic in the mach commands to make this work the way you want it to. Please file a bug and CC gps and Nat. > > Does it supports nmake as well? > No. It effectively shells out to `mach build` for the heavy lifting. > > Thanks. > > Wei-Cheng Pan > > On 5/25/16 7:00 AM, Gregory Szorc wrote: > > Coming soon to your local builds, Visual Studio project files will be > > generated automatically when building on Windows because we want to > > encourage more people to use them because fully-featured IDEs can be > > productivity wins. > > > > The Visual Studio projects now automatically target the Visual Studio > > version being used (1 week ago they would always generate VS2013 project > > files). Another new change is that unless the build configuration > changes, > > the Visual Studio files won't be updated by the build system unless they > > need changed. That means if you do a pull+build when Visual Studio is > open, > > you shouldn't get tons of warnings that you need to reload files to pick > up > > changes. > > > > The Visual Studio integration isn't perfect. We'd like to encourage more > > development on Windows because that's where most Firefox users are. So if > > you'd like improvements to the Visual Studio project files, please file > > Core :: Build Config bugs. > > > > This change was tracked in bug 1275297. Bug 1275419 tracks a follow-up to > > allow disabling their generation. > > ___ > > dev-platform mailing list > > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > > ___ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
Re: Generating Visual Studio project files by default
Awesome. Using the VisualStudio project file makes me significantly more productive, so I recommend everyone on Windows use it for debugging, learning about, and editing code. The experience is significantly better if you install the Visual Assist plugin by Whole Tomato Software: http://www.wholetomato.com/ This makes VisualStudio's IntelliSense perform significantly better, i.e. less crashy; you don't have to roll the dice every time you jump-to-definition on a symbol. It also adds ALT+SHIFT+O to open file in project, and ALT+SHIFT+S to search for symbol, which also perform significantly faster than VisualStudio's built-in equivalent feature (CTRL+,). Install it. They have a free trial, and once that expires, get Mozilla to pay for a license. You'll be more productive because of it. It's worth it. cpearce. On Wednesday, May 25, 2016 at 11:00:48 AM UTC+12, Gregory Szorc wrote: > Coming soon to your local builds, Visual Studio project files will be > generated automatically when building on Windows because we want to > encourage more people to use them because fully-featured IDEs can be > productivity wins. > > The Visual Studio projects now automatically target the Visual Studio > version being used (1 week ago they would always generate VS2013 project > files). Another new change is that unless the build configuration changes, > the Visual Studio files won't be updated by the build system unless they > need changed. That means if you do a pull+build when Visual Studio is open, > you shouldn't get tons of warnings that you need to reload files to pick up > changes. > > The Visual Studio integration isn't perfect. We'd like to encourage more > development on Windows because that's where most Firefox users are. So if > you'd like improvements to the Visual Studio project files, please file > Core :: Build Config bugs. > > This change was tracked in bug 1275297. Bug 1275419 tracks a follow-up to > allow disabling their generation. ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
Re: Generating Visual Studio project files by default
This is great! Just few questions: Can we debug firefox in the IDE during mochitest? i.e.: ./mach mochitest --debugger=devenv Does it supports nmake as well? Thanks. Wei-Cheng Pan On 5/25/16 7:00 AM, Gregory Szorc wrote: > Coming soon to your local builds, Visual Studio project files will be > generated automatically when building on Windows because we want to > encourage more people to use them because fully-featured IDEs can be > productivity wins. > > The Visual Studio projects now automatically target the Visual Studio > version being used (1 week ago they would always generate VS2013 project > files). Another new change is that unless the build configuration changes, > the Visual Studio files won't be updated by the build system unless they > need changed. That means if you do a pull+build when Visual Studio is open, > you shouldn't get tons of warnings that you need to reload files to pick up > changes. > > The Visual Studio integration isn't perfect. We'd like to encourage more > development on Windows because that's where most Firefox users are. So if > you'd like improvements to the Visual Studio project files, please file > Core :: Build Config bugs. > > This change was tracked in bug 1275297. Bug 1275419 tracks a follow-up to > allow disabling their generation. > ___ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
Re: Generating Visual Studio project files by default
> On May 24, 2016, at 19:29, Jeff Gilbert wrote: > > What's the build-time impact of this? It should be marginal compared to all the other stuff that happens during a build, even a light build. Local and automation builds print the timing numbers and I've been doing a lot of work lately to surface and monitor this data better. If you feel this change has a noticeable negative impact on a particular workflow because of the overhead, please file a bug. > >> On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 4:00 PM, Gregory Szorc wrote: >> Coming soon to your local builds, Visual Studio project files will be >> generated automatically when building on Windows because we want to >> encourage more people to use them because fully-featured IDEs can be >> productivity wins. >> >> The Visual Studio projects now automatically target the Visual Studio >> version being used (1 week ago they would always generate VS2013 project >> files). Another new change is that unless the build configuration changes, >> the Visual Studio files won't be updated by the build system unless they >> need changed. That means if you do a pull+build when Visual Studio is open, >> you shouldn't get tons of warnings that you need to reload files to pick up >> changes. >> >> The Visual Studio integration isn't perfect. We'd like to encourage more >> development on Windows because that's where most Firefox users are. So if >> you'd like improvements to the Visual Studio project files, please file >> Core :: Build Config bugs. >> >> This change was tracked in bug 1275297. Bug 1275419 tracks a follow-up to >> allow disabling their generation. >> ___ >> dev-platform mailing list >> dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org >> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
Re: Generating Visual Studio project files by default
On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 7:29 PM, Jeff Gilbert wrote: > What's the build-time impact of this? The implicit question being, if this impact is non-zero, can I turn it off? Also, does it make any sense to do this on try machines? ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
Re: Generating Visual Studio project files by default
What's the build-time impact of this? On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 4:00 PM, Gregory Szorc wrote: > Coming soon to your local builds, Visual Studio project files will be > generated automatically when building on Windows because we want to > encourage more people to use them because fully-featured IDEs can be > productivity wins. > > The Visual Studio projects now automatically target the Visual Studio > version being used (1 week ago they would always generate VS2013 project > files). Another new change is that unless the build configuration changes, > the Visual Studio files won't be updated by the build system unless they > need changed. That means if you do a pull+build when Visual Studio is open, > you shouldn't get tons of warnings that you need to reload files to pick up > changes. > > The Visual Studio integration isn't perfect. We'd like to encourage more > development on Windows because that's where most Firefox users are. So if > you'd like improvements to the Visual Studio project files, please file > Core :: Build Config bugs. > > This change was tracked in bug 1275297. Bug 1275419 tracks a follow-up to > allow disabling their generation. > ___ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
Generating Visual Studio project files by default
Coming soon to your local builds, Visual Studio project files will be generated automatically when building on Windows because we want to encourage more people to use them because fully-featured IDEs can be productivity wins. The Visual Studio projects now automatically target the Visual Studio version being used (1 week ago they would always generate VS2013 project files). Another new change is that unless the build configuration changes, the Visual Studio files won't be updated by the build system unless they need changed. That means if you do a pull+build when Visual Studio is open, you shouldn't get tons of warnings that you need to reload files to pick up changes. The Visual Studio integration isn't perfect. We'd like to encourage more development on Windows because that's where most Firefox users are. So if you'd like improvements to the Visual Studio project files, please file Core :: Build Config bugs. This change was tracked in bug 1275297. Bug 1275419 tracks a follow-up to allow disabling their generation. ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
