[LLVMdev] Final Visual Studio Patches

[Vikram S. Adve]

While a single mechanism is best in principle, it *is* possible to come  
up with one so complicated or unfamiliar that it is harder to use on  
all platforms.  The Windows and *nix development worlds seem different  
enough that there is a risk of ending up like this.  I'm not objecting  
to trying to create a unified build system, but I think it's worth  
considering whether the result will actually be better than 2 separate  
systems (which we already now have, thanks to Morten's and others'  
efforts).

Another alternative may be to unify the LLVM-side information  
(opt/debug options, tool names, directories, test scripts, etc.) so  
that most tasks only require you to make changes in one place, and then  
let the rest of the build system be separate for the two platforms.

--Vikram
http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/~vadve
http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/

On Nov 1, 2004, at 2:33 PM, Reid Spencer wrote:

> We could add the MSVS project files to the repository but I too would  
> like to see a single mechanism for building on all platforms. Someone  
> mentioned using the Boost build system a few weeks ago but I haven't  
> heard anything more on how that effort is going.  I also think we can  
> customize our existing makefiles to use the underlying (command  
> oriented) tools under MSVS. We'd still need cygwin for this solution  
> but at least we could compile with an MS compiler.
>
> Reid.
>
> Chris Lattner wrote:
>> On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, Morten Ofstad wrote:
>>> with the patches you accepted last week, everything now works with  
>>> two
>>> one-line modifications.
>> Great!
>>> One is a missing include in a windows specific
>>> platform file and
>> Okay, as Jeff pointed out, this isn't needed, so not applied.
>>> the other is a definition of a symbol I need to trick the linker (as
>>> discussed before)... The attached file is the complete diff between  
>>> my
>> Applied:
>> http://mail.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvm-commits/Week-of-Mon-20041101/ 
>> 020124.html
>>> If you want to put my visual studio project files into the CVS,  
>>> please
>>> tell me where to send them as they're too big to attach to this mail.
>> I'm not sure what the right thing is to do with these, I will defer to
>> other people more involved with the build to decide.
>> For me, coming up with a way to support both unix-like and  
>> windows-like
>> systems in one framework seems best from the maintenance standpoint,  
>> but I
>> don't know what the right way is to do this.
>> -Chris
>
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