Re: [ros-dev] Notice Of Intent - Visual Studio Build of ReactOS

[Conan Kudo (ニール・ゴンパ)]

In the end, CMake will still be a supported build path for MSVC and GCC
based builds, right?
On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 12:04 PM, J. C. Jones <jaibuduvin(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>   Hallo Timo,****
>  ** **
>  I have been enjoying reading your code from time to time over the past two
>  weeks. Very happy to meet you. J****
>  ** **
>  It would take 2-3 hours to create VS projects for all user-mode modules.
>  This assumes, of course, familiarity with the peculiarities of the source
>  tree, which I am learning with Amine. I will spend a bit of time
>  understanding the existing model (lang model to disk building, etc.) once
>  that is understood, I will create a *single* template for one CPU and one
>  configuration, say, x86-32/Debug, and make sure that this template is
>  perfect, meaning no errors or oddities of any kind. After that, for Amine
>  and me, it is basically turn-the-crank to generate the others:
>  x86-32/Debug, x86-32/Release, x86-64/Debug, x86-64/Release, PPC/Debug
>  PPC/Release, ARMv7 Debug/ARMv7 Release, etc,. Setting up the project
>  options is a big exercise in cut-and-paste, a
>  boring-but-strangely-enjoyable activity, with little tweaks here and there.
>   For example, let’s say that the all of the various ARM configurations were
>  special, in that they required explicit specification of Little-Endian to
>  the compiler. We would highlight all the ARM configurations, check the for
>  Little-Endian box (or enter a  flag), answer yes to the pop-up dialog, and
>  all X configurations for ARM will get changed at once, while leaving the
>  other configurations intact. The cut-and-paste is done from inside the IDE
>  . ****
>  ** **
>  -John ****
>  ** **
>  *From:* ros-dev-bounces(a)reactos.org [mailto:[e-mail]] *On
>  Behalf Of *Timo Kreuzer
>  *Sent:* Wednesday, January 02, 2013 6:00 AM
>  *To:* ReactOS Development List
>  *Subject:* Re: [ros-dev] Notice Of Intent - Visual Studio Build of ReactOS
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>  Am 02.01.2013 11:40, schrieb Aleksey Bragin:****
>  I will quote the valuable parts of the chat for those who missed it:
>  Answering the question of "How?"
>  [02:41] <+BlackRabbit> 1. Take the entire tree
>  [02:41] <+BlackRabbit> 2. Build projects that follow the tree exactly,
>  using directory names, according to the tree.
>  [02:42] <+BlackRabbit> So, for example, calc would have a VS project file
>  in it's directory.
>  [02:42] <+BlackRabbit> That's trivial, and would take  about 2-3 hours.***
>  *
>  Hmm.. just to get it right: What "would take about 2-3 hours"? Creating
>  the VS project file for calc or for all of our (usermode) modules?****
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