[Qgis-developer] GRASS support in MSVC build

[Benjamin Ducke]

Apologies for my ignorance, but what is the idea about having
an MSVC build of QGIS alongside the MinGW build? Does it not
cost a lot of additional effort to maintain two compiler bases?

Does the MSVC build have any particular advantages over the
MinGW build, so that we can expect the MinGW path to be
abandoned in the future?

If so, I for one will not be able to participate in the
development of the Win32 version of QGIS.

Best wishes,

Benjamin

Jürgen E. Fischer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a MSVC build that supports GRASS.
> 
> Python support should already be in place given a python 2.5.1 install
> with PyQt4 and SIP build with MSVC (IIRC that worked out of the box
> using: python configure.py -p win32-msvc2005 & nmake & nmake install).
> 
> The archive http://www.norbit.de/~jef/qgis-grass-vc.zip contains
> patches against QGIS and GRASS and a subdirectory
> src/providers/grass/vc.
> 
> The GRASS patches only address the DLLS needed by QGIS to enable GRASS
> support.  When building QGIS with MSVC it'll build these from the
> patched GRASS sources.
> 
> Please take a look.  Should this be committed?
> 
> 
> Jürgen
> 

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