Re: Installing synopsis on Windows

David Genest wrote:

> I am in no way criticizing flexibility, but the current build system is
> centered around unix-style build tools, and that is, unfortunately, not
> very portable to the windows platform. I am trying to port to windows
> without the need for cygwin. But the approach I am using right now
> duplicates information in the MSVC project files, which does not help
> maintenance when the trunk changes. Take the Boost libraries for
> example. They are built on almost every platform known with bjam that is
> itself a cross platform build system.

David,

I'm very interested in being able to compile Synopsis with MSVC. As you
know, right now it builds with cygwin gcc, as well as mingw gcc, on Windows.

While I can believe that an MSVC 'solution' would be convenient for those
people used to MSVC, I still wonder whether it might be possible to add
the required flexibility to the existing build system to invoke MSVC's
tools (cl.exe, link.exe, etc.) via their command-line interface directly.
That is what boost.build is doing, and what I'm doing for other projects
(such as http://www.codesourcery.com/vsiplplusplus) successfully.

Do you think this may be a viable way forward ?

Thanks,
		Stefan

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