Johan 't Hart said the following on 18.08.2009 19:41:
Junio C Hamano schreef:
Since use of make implies use of shell, this makes me wonder if it
would make sense to go one step further by giving msvc users a thin
shell wrapper mcvc-cc that turns bog-standard cc command line into
whatever cl uses.
Just using the msvc toolchain for building git misses the whole
purpose of what VC is used for. MSVC would be used because of the
IDE, not for the compiler IMO.
Bull. MSVC produces superior code on Windows compared to MinGW, I'm
afraid. Add the /LTGC (Link Time Code Generation), and MSVC generates
very good cross compile-unit optimized code. (I know gcc has the option,
but it's not as good, by far)
Coupled now with built-in static code analysis, these are only two
reasons why *I* would want to build it directly from the command line
without worrying that my .vcproj is out-of-sync with the main development.
You can still debug with the MSVC debugger if you'd like, and the MSVC
IDE allows you to wrap Makefile project too, so you can *still* use the
IDE..
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.marius
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