A Windows Build Tree for MapServer

[Tamas Szekeres]

Jani,

Am I right to think that you have a python program to create the project
files before compilation? How does it work?

Does this solution version dependent?

Tamas


On Wed, 8 Feb 2006 14:50:02 -0700, Jani Averbach
<javerbach at EXTENDTHEREACH.COM> wrote:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> On Behalf Of Howard Butler
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 12:26 PM
>>
>> I am a firm -1 against project files.  Granted they aren't as bad in
>> msvc7+, but they still can cause a lot of grief.  I especially have
>> trouble navigating the myriad of menus to figure out where to add
>> lib files, etc.
>...
>> Coupled with the fact that it is impossible to debug how a user is
>> running a project file over email "no, click on the thing next to
>> the other thingy in the option menu that you have to remember to
>> enable", I don't see us changing at this time.
>
>Let me emphasis that I am not proposing to move away from a command line
>based solution. What I am saying is that we move away from static
>makefiles to dynamically built project files.  There is a tool called
>'devenv' which you can launch from command line which will do the
>build for you. So the work flow would be:
>
>S:\3rdParty\GIS\mapserver> python build-make.py --vcproj \
>  --with-gdal=..\gdal
>  --with-png=..\libpng
>  etc
>
>And when this configuration is done, next thing would be:
>
>S:\3rdParty\GIS\mapserver>devenv /build "DLL Release" /project
mapserver.vcproj mapserver.sln
>
>Microsoft (R) Development Environment  Version 7.10.3077.
>Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1984-2001. All rights reserved.
>------ Build started: Project: zlib, Configuration: LIB Release Win32 ------
>
>zlib - up-to-date.
>Build Time 0:00
>
>
>------ Build started: Project: freetype, Configuration: Release Win32 ------
>
>freetype - up-to-date.
>Build Time 0:01
>
>
>------ Build started: Project: libpng, Configuration: LIB Release Win32 ------
>
>libpng - up-to-date.
>Build Time 0:00
>
>
>------ Build started: Project: pcre, Configuration: Release Win32 ------
>
>pcre - up-to-date.
>Build Time 0:00
>
>
>------ Build started: Project: gd, Configuration: Release Win32 ------
>
>gd - up-to-date.
>Build Time 0:01
>
>
>------ Build started: Project: proj.4, Configuration: Release Win32 ------
>
>proj.4 - up-to-date.
>Build Time 0:01
>
>
>------ Build started: Project: gdal, Configuration: Release Win32 ------
>
>gdal - up-to-date.
>Build Time 0:08
>
>
>------ Build started: Project: mapserver, Configuration: DLL_Release Win32
------
>
>mapserver - up-to-date.
>Build Time 0:01
>
>
>---------------------- Done ----------------------
>
>    Build: 8 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 skipped
>
>S:\3rdParty\GIS\mapserver>
>
>
>> Building MapServer on Windows used to be only for the most
>> courageous, and I'm hoping to lower that bar.  I'm not ready to
>> ditch the makefiles though.
>
>So the work flow would be very similar to compared with makefiles and
>there is no need to fiddle with GUI. With project files we would get
>the best of both worlds, simplicity of command line, and convenience of
>well setup projects with GUI.
>
>BR, Jani
>
>Jani Averbach
>SRC,LLC
>
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