Re: Windows build environment

[Andriy Beregovenko <jet () jet kiev ua>]

Hi Graham,

Oh, this is very actual issue.

My personal "wishlist" consist of two things:
1. Generation of register.c must be completely reworked, cause most times I
must wait about 15-20 minutes when recompiling sources;
2. Make CMake default for win-platform building is really good idea.

On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 03:46:52PM -0000, Graham Bloice wrote:
> Folks,
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> This email was triggered by the recent win-setup.sh issue reported, but I?ve
> been thinking about the issues for a while.
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> FWIW over the Xmas break I looked into reworking the windows build to remove as
> many external dependencies (such as Cygwin) as possible.  I was using
> PowerShell to replace the bash bits.  We would still need Python and probably
> Perl as they are intrinsic to the build, and some gnuwin32 utilities such as
> bison and flex but I thought that the rest could be handled by PowerShell
> scripts.  Any extra executable (apart from Python and Perl) not normally found
> on a Windows machine could be bundled in a zip file similar to the way we
> handle the libs required.
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> Does anyone see any value in this?
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> I've also wondered about moving on from nmake and converting to MSBuild.  This
> is only usable from VS2008 or later though.  Any thoughts on that?
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> And there is also CMake, does anyone use that for the windows build?
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> Regards,
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> Graham Bloice

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Andriy
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