Re: time to remove Visual Studio project files?

To clarify you can generate nmake files with CMake.

On Sat, Sep 5, 2020, 8:35 AM Daniel Stenberg via curl-library <
curl-library_at_cool.haxx.se> wrote:

> On Sat, 5 Sep 2020, Rod Widdowson via curl-library wrote:
>
> > I'd be *very* reluctant to see the NMAKE files go, but we have never
> used
> > the vcxproj files. As I recall, I couldn't get over the apparent
> impedance
> > mismatch between the multiple parameterization options and the
> configuration
> > types.
>
> Thanks, but I have no intentions of removing the nnake files. I believe
> those
> are in a rather good shape, are frequently used and the documentation for
> them
> is decent. They are makefiles, easy to understand and maintain even for us
> who
> don't actually ever use them.
>
> I was hoping that building curl on windows could be narrowed down to
> primarily
> be using these:
>
> - nmake for building with visual studio (winbuild/)
> - configure for msys/mingw style builds
> - cmake for the rest
> - (mingw makefiles for the adventureous, but they remain mostly
> undocumented)
>
> The VS project files are different. They are custom XML files for a
> proprietary product that are (next to) impossible for anyone without that
> tool
> to verify and fix. And cmake can generate such files.
>
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Received on 2020-09-05