[Gdal-dev] Visual Studio Project Files

[Frank Warmerdam]

Simon Perkins wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Matt Hanson and I had a thread going in which the subject of Visual
> Studio Project files came up. I didn't get any comments on that and
> figured the details might have been lost in the noise, so here's a
> second attempt to elicit some feedback...
...
> So, what d'yall think? Is it necessary? Would it be useful? Any ideas
> about this could be implemented most effectively? Anyone done any work
> on this already that they want to share? I would be happy to take a
> first stab at this. Should this be written up as an official RFC? How do
> I do that?

Sy,

I haven't run into any compelling problems with the NMAKE based build
approach myself.  As Mateusz points out, we can adjust things to embed
the manifests if that is important.

However, if there are folks who understand project files well, and are
willing to maintain them, then I would not be opposed to them being
available as a parallel build mechanism.  I, unfortunately, do not
understand them well, and am not really keen on being responsible
for their development or maintenance.

I would suggest that a formal RFC be brought forward to the GDAL PSC
before project files (or cmake based builds) are introduced into the
existing tree.

Incidentally, if something like this is approached, it might be reasonable
to integrate it with the project files for wince in the gdal\wince directory.

Best regards,
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