Re: Removing the "&build" from gtk+ in CVSROOT/modules

[Todd Fisher <toddf simosoftware com>]

Dave Benson wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 02:14:28AM +0000, Tor Lillqvist wrote:
>  
>
> > Todd Fisher writes:
> > > I hope it would be possible to continue supporting msvc.
> >
> > Well, if the level of support there has been upto now is enough, OK
> > with me... (I assume you have had to edit those files in glib/build
> > quite heavily? And also edit the makefile.msc files somewhat?)
> >
> > > I wonder if it is possible to get autotools working with msvc;
> >
> > Getting autotools working with MSVC might be nice indeed. There is a
> > start at an attempt at a wrapper for cl that would integrate better
> > with typical Makefiles and be more easily used by libtool in
> > build/win32/cl-wrapper.c. I don't remember how far I got with
> > that. But, for most people one main reason to use MSVC presumably
> > would be its compilation speed, so using MSVC though libtool (which
> > runs slow as molasses on Win32) might be regarded as counter-productive...
> >    
>
> Yeah, for a project i work on, i really want a way
> to write .sln files from automake's Makefile.am's.
> (only a subset of automake that pertains to library
> building need be emulated.)
>
> from the command line, running 'devenv /build release gtk.sln'
> would be nice and fast...
>
> i hear there's an API for writing .sln files,
> but parsing Makefile.am's is a pain, so this task is tough.
>
> - dave
There is a very interesting project that might help although it is still 
very new. It is called bakefile
http://bakefile.sourceforge.net/

It apparently allows you to create project files or auto* files.

-todd