[gdal-dev] A question related to your recent post "Dropping Windows-CE support?"

[Mateusz Loskot]

On 15 October 2015 at 22:33, Tim Crook <tim.crook at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> I am trying to build a development environment for Windows desktop. I have
> already run makegdal_gen.bat and the created project files don't load/get
> converted with Visual Studio 2015.

I have just checked:

1) Launch cmd.exe and run makegdal_gen.bat 10.00 > makegdal14.vcproj
2) Load makegdal14.vcproj into VS2015 IDE
3) Confirm you want to upgrade and makegdal14.vcxproj + makegdal14.sln
are generated

Works for me.

> Inside the generated .vcproj files are a bunch of wrapped NMAKE commands -
> this isn't useful for development.

It is just a convenience proxy for NMAKE /f makefile.vc

> I will be working on bugs (and eventually
> features) of GDAL, so I want to do things like set breakpoints, maybe do
> profiling of GDAL.

You still can do it.
The only invoncenience is that you will have to set executable target
of your choice in
Project > Properties > Debugging > Command
Project > Properties > Debugging > Command Arguments
i.e. gdalinfo


Alternatively, join Dmitry & Maxim efforts to bring CMake into GDAL
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2015_Code_Sprint#GDAL

Best regards,
-- 
Mateusz  Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net