Re: [sigc] Building with MSVC

[John Emmas <johne53 tiscali co uk>]

On 14/06/2013 09:56, Kjell Ahlstedt wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for the prompt reply, Kjell.

For the time being I'll use those files that you pointed to but it'd be 
nice to be able to build fully from source, eventually.

As an aside, I'm pretty experienced now at building GNU stuff with 
MSVC.  Certain libraries (glib / gtk etc) have made this much easier 
with a combination of perl scripts and template files for building the 
auto-generated stuff (or 'glib-mkenus' for enumeration files). In fact I 
can now build the entire GTK+ stack (pango / cairo / gdk-pixbuf etc) 
with a combination of just MSVC, python and perl. It'd be really nice to 
get libsigc++ to that stage too, at some point in the future.

Thanks again for your help.

John