[LLVMdev] Final Visual Studio Patches

[Reid Spencer]

Jeff Cohen wrote:

> On Tue, 02 Nov 2004 10:25:39 +0100
> "Henrik Bach" <henrik_bach_llvm at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>I've come over an open source script which should be able to convert unix 
>>(gnu?) like makefiles to nmake. However, It possible needs some changes to 
>>work with the llvm makefile framework.
> 
> 
> I'm very doubtful this utility is of any use.  nmake is useless compared
> to gnu make.  I don't see how gnu makefiles can be converted to nmake
> makefiles except in the most trivial of cases.

Yeah, that would be my take too. I've tried this before and given up. The 
current makefile system HEAVILY depends on GNU Makef features (unabashedly) and 
there are many GNU functions that just have no equivlanet in nmake.

> 
>>Until then, I strongly suggest a repository for the msvc project files until 
>>we'll come with a lasting solution. It is natural that we, msvc guys, should 
>>keep these files in shape.
>>
>>Henrik.
> 
> 
> Like it or not, I suspect solution and projects files are the lasting
> solution.  Makefiles are not normally used in the Windows world, because
> nmake is not usable for anything non-trivial.  Microsoft doesn't make
> nmake truly useful, because no one uses it enough to care.  Heck, I
> could never get nmake to work with the makefiles generated by Visual
> Studio!  Instead of fixing nmake, Microsoft simply dropped from VS the
> option of generating makefiles.

Right. This is why I suggested we just put the project files in a simple place 
that Windows folks can keep up to date and that won't get in the way of the 
Unix folks.

So, where's the patch?


Reid.