From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marius Storm-Olsen Subject: Re: [msysGit] Re: [RFC] Enable compilation by Makefile for the MSVC toolchain Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:59:02 +0200 Message-ID: <4A8BDAF6.5060805@gmail.com> References: <1250600335-8642-1-git-send-email-mstormo@gmail.com> <7vtz05dq0p.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <4A8AE7C5.7050600@gmail.com> <4A8AED8B.9080604@gmail.com> <40aa078e0908181502v32cbd223xcde1cd363dc76345@mail.gmail.com> <40aa078e0908181548t5df05b1ct8013b99ea703ebba@mail.gmail.com> <4A8BA9EC.9000006@storm-olsen.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Marius Storm-Olsen , Erik Faye-Lund , Johan 't Hart , Junio C Hamano , msysgit@googlegroups.com, git@vger.kernel.org, lznuaa@gmail.com, bonzini@gnu.org To: Johannes Schindelin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Aug 19 12:59:27 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Mdit4-0004kp-Rd for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:59:27 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751791AbZHSK7I (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Aug 2009 06:59:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751792AbZHSK7H (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Aug 2009 06:59:07 -0400 Received: from mail-fx0-f217.google.com ([209.85.220.217]:40585 "EHLO mail-fx0-f217.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751550AbZHSK7G (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Aug 2009 06:59:06 -0400 Received: by fxm17 with SMTP id 17so3714601fxm.37 for ; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 03:59:06 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=DSYC5AHtBcJHSUsgBssvUApg1XrTEft6x3WWXcug3Qg=; b=AAMcFsD5nXMUmIAFKeMTK7rzWYClMipchiC+QpjcWCYxSdhyZ4Ni9jFuMcUwV96xlB wWBUGYBwpY8E8t00f7gzjjWZayvANLQSkxi6G1G+svKYfrPBBL7TogZfREuCBziNnI5K LSAtjfJRRoxewYhGOq3lt27t28breyjQw8B+0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=J7I58dCXEyvlJCPoKeOsa43WisuOih3hQdwL+rv0AUmdZ9wfiqcNUD2le6yPaFb9e9 TaI56rgO1qVOQ1alsCJdZxz1t/lbVxdPkthaFgmXuoSC3jTbx/fwAyn6lZ0ATXwcTRKP 9zJon0r9ChyERJIwnTgXnGeewZmhuN6nDQrOQ= Received: by 10.204.152.27 with SMTP id e27mr4793672bkw.192.1250679546214; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 03:59:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?172.24.90.95? ([62.70.27.104]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 1sm8129345fks.41.2009.08.19.03.59.04 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 19 Aug 2009 03:59:05 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.22) Gecko/20090605 Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.22 ThunderGit/0.1a Mnenhy/0.7.6.666 In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Johannes Schindelin said the following on 19.08.2009 10:29: > Hi, > > On Wed, 19 Aug 2009, Marius Storm-Olsen wrote: > >> The full IDE support is secondary, first because you *can* use the IDE >> already, and second because it'll be harder to whip something up which >> guarantees that the vcproj support stays in-sync at all times and won't >> lag behind. > > I think the point of Frank's patches is to make Visual Studio users > comfortable with Git. You cannot ask those to use a build process or an > IDE they are not used to. > >> Of course, if someone has a huge itch to restructure the current >> Makefile; factoring out the files into a file which can simply be >> included in the current Makefile, and easily parsed by a script, or >> included by CMake, then that can be done in parallel and possible added >> to git mainline before the MSVC support patches from Frank. > > I still think it would be possible to use a combination of a > Makefile rule and GNU make features to spit out a list of targets and > their dependet .h and .c files. Ok, but you would still have to rely on GNU Make in this setup, and it would have to generate the common_cmds.h before you can even compile with the MSVC IDE. -- .marius