Re: Making ORBit work with MS VS compilers

[Michael Haubenwallner <michael haubenwallner salomon at>]

On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 11:09 -0700, Marcelo Vanzin wrote:
> Hi Tor,
> 
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 1:06 AM, Tor Lillqvist <tml iki fi> wrote:
> >  Hmm, so you are planning on still using libtool even if you compile
> >  with MSVC? I thought your plan was to build it completely from the
> >  IDE, i.e. create project and solution files etc.
> 
> Sorry if I wasn't that clear. I'm interested in building it with the
> MS VC toolchain, not necessarily with Visual Studio. :-) I don't even
> have VS (unless, of course, I get my employer to allow me to work on
> it, then I'd have access to VS - but even then, we don't use VS to
> build anything at work, we actually use cygwin, but with MS's
> compilers).

Then you really should consider trying parity. Although we're on
Interix, there should be no reason to not operate on Cygwin as build
environment.

/haubi/