On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Johan 't Hart<johanthart@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Marius Storm-Olsen schreef: >> >> From: Marius Storm-Olsen <mstormo@xxxxxxxxx> >> >> By using GNU Make we can also compile with the MSVC toolchain. >> This is a rudementary patch, only meant as an RFC for now!! >> > > Would this mean that only the MSVC toolchain is used to build git in batch? > Or does GNU Make create a .vcproj file like CMake? That patch uses GNU Make but invoking the MSVC compiler, linker, etc instead of the GNU compiler, linker, etc. It'd be the same if you wanted to use the Intel compiler, the Sun compiler, etc. > Because that ofcource is > the whole purpose of using CMake. One can use the Visual Studio IDE to hack > on git. CMake is also useful to create installers/tarballs (see CPack), run tests (see CTest; it's NOT a unit test library but a tests launcher on steroids) and submit the results of compilation, tests and installation to a dashboard where you can easily see what (if anything) went wrong (see CDash, formerly Dart). -- Pau Garcia i Quiles http://www.elpauer.org (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer) -- 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