Re: Building GTK+ 3.0 with Visual Studio 2013

[Syed Akbar <syed_akbar gmx net>]

The build system of Hexchat is MozillaBuild. There are VC project files 
included, but I am not able to use them. I can open them but not use for 
debugging: error "file not found".


Am 09.02.2014 06:37, schrieb John Emmas:
> On 8 Feb 2014, at 23:03, Syed Akbar wrote:
>
> > Ok, I just built GTK using the hexchat libraries.... done in about half an hour. But now I realised that I 
> > can't include the source files directly into Visual Studio. Hmm... that means always compile separately, or 
> > not?!
> Hmmm....  what build system does Hexchat use?  Does it build using VC projects or does it use some other build system, 
> such as make / waf / scons etc?  If it's using vcproj files your Debug builds should "just work" - even if 
> each project is a separate entity with its own source files in its own folders.  I've never found it necessary to 
> include 3rd party source files in my own project.  You need to build each project as a library.  Then (when building 
> your own application) you link it to the built libraries.
>
> Of course...  you might need to ensure that your Debug libraries have a slightly different name from your Release libraries.  For example, 
> the Release build of Atk might be called "libatk-1.0.lib" whereas the Debug build might be "libatk-1.0D.lib".  
> Step-by-step debugging won't work if you attempt to link your Debug app to the Release builds of your libraries.  Generally, you need to 
> make sure that Debug builds have a slightly different name (adding a "D" suffix is the most popular convention with MSVC).
>
> John