Hi, On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: > On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 12:26 AM, Johan 't Hart<johanthart@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Johannes Schindelin schreef: > > > >> Having said that, a CMake-based system _in addition_ to what is > >> tried-and-tested to be able to support all those different kinds of > >> Microsoft Visual Studio (took me 3 attempts to write that without a > >> Freudian) would be welcome, _if_ you succeed in making it compile out > >> of the box on msysGit. > > > > That would require (I think) that CMake is build by the msysgit gcc > > tools available in msysgit, since CMake can't be build by VS right? > > Pau do you think that is possible? > > CMake can certainly be built by VC++ but you need CMake to do that, > VC++-CMake cannot be bootstrapped. > > Would it be OK to download a binary version of CMake instead of / in > addition to the source? (I'm not familiar with the 'release.sh' stuff > yet) Well, as I tried to establish msysGit as _the_ Git for Windows, I would be willing to created download bundles for Microsoft Visual C++ users, but only if the hassle is not big enough. Read: if the procedure is a script that does not need to be supervised until it created a .zip or .7z file, I'm all for it. > > It would be fun. Download the msysgit netinstaller, set it up, install > > it, and after that, CMake is bootstrapped, and the visual studio > > .vcproj files are generated and everyone (VS developers and msys > > developers) are ready to go! > > That'd be right, if I have understood what the netinstaller does (I've > never used it yet). Or that. Ciao, Dscho -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html