Re: [RFC] Enable compilation by Makefile for the MSVC toolchain

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Hi,

On Wed, 19 Aug 2009, Marius Storm-Olsen wrote:

> The full IDE support is secondary, first because you *can* use the IDE 
> already, and second because it'll be harder to whip something up which 
> guarantees that the vcproj support stays in-sync at all times and won't 
> lag behind.

I think the point of Frank's patches is to make Visual Studio users 
comfortable with Git.  You cannot ask those to use a build process or an 
IDE they are not used to.

> Of course, if someone has a huge itch to restructure the current 
> Makefile; factoring out the files into a file which can simply be 
> included in the current Makefile, and easily parsed by a script, or 
> included by CMake, then that can be done in parallel and possible added 
> to git mainline before the MSVC support patches from Frank.

I still think it would be possible to use a combination of a 
Makefile rule and GNU make features to spit out a list of targets and 
their dependet .h and .c files.

Ciao,
Dscho


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