Re: [Openexr-devel] Getting the win32 project to work with visual studio .net

[Drew Hess]

Now if only there were a tool that would parse those vcproj files and
create makefiles ;)


Moritz Moeller <address@hidden> writes:

> I just wanted to share a little thing regarding Visual
> Studio-dependent Windows builds in general here. I'm part of the
> developers that work on the open-source Maya->RenderMan bridge called
> 'Liquid'. Liquid is a software that comes from the IRIX/Linux platform
> originally.
>
> I just recently added a makefile for Windows as I had repeatedly
> trouble with Visual Studio forgetting certain changes made to the
> project all of a sudden (every two months or so this happened). This
> would result in the build failing of course and then require the
> annoying re-adding of the 'forgotten' stuff (changed options, CPP
> defines and new dependencies).
>
> This new Windows-specific makefile is based on and /very/ similar to
> the Linux/Unix one and is also used with *GNU make* (as part of Cygwin
> -- we btw. do /not/ use automake on this project). It invokes the MS
> C++ command-line compiler & linker.
> As newer VS versions don't allow to export the project as a makefile
> anymore, the required compiler and linker options are best found by
> looking into two files that VS writes out when building (don't
> remember what their names & extensions were, but they stood out among
> the .obj files clearly). It took me less than half a day to get
> everything working absolutely smoothly with that approach.
>
> On a side note, the MS C++ compiler & linker are available for free
> from MS, as part of the Microsoft Visual Toolkit 2003 package. As VS
> is no longer needed now, we thereby removed any dependency the project
> had on commercial tools on Windows too.
> Suffice to say I never had any trouble building Liquid on Windows
> since then. :)
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Moritz
>
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