Re: [sigc] Building with MSVC

[Kjell Ahlstedt <kjell ahlstedt bredband net>]

Many source code files in libsigc++ are generated from the .m4 files in 
the macros/ directories. You need an M4 macro processor for that.

The released versions at 
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/libsigc++/ contain the generated 
.h and .cc files, as well as generated documentation and a few other 
generated files. It's easier to use one of those released versions, but 
then of course you won't get the very latest updates.

Kjell

2013-06-14 08:51, John Emmas skrev:
> Hello guys,
>
> Yesterday I did a git clone of the sigc++ code (from gnome) with the 
> intention of building with MSVC.  I'd already built with MSVC several 
> years ago so I'm familiar with the general process. However, I was 
> very pleased to see that VC solutions and project files are now 
> available for the more recent MSVC compilers.
>
> To save myself some time I loaded up the solution for VS2005 and tried 
> a build.  But the build fails because the following files are missing:-
>
>         sigc++/signal.h
>         sigc++/functors/slot.h
>         sigc++/functors/functor_trait.h
>
> From what I can tell (looking at my older build) it seems like those 
> files must get auto-generated.  So is there some preliminary step that 
> I need to carry out before my MSVC build?
>
> John