Building kdelibs with VS 2005 (patch)

[Jarosław Staniek]

Manuel Klimek said the following, On 2006-10-05 07:59:
>>I just sucessfully compiled kdelibs using visual studio 2005 express
>>edition, without the proposed patch, using the comand prompt. The
>>problems appers to be restrict to the Visual Studio GUI (maybe a
>>problem with project files).
> 
> 
> "using the command prompt": does that mean you used nmake?
> Than you didn't really use visual studio, but nmake which is like
> gnu make. Visual studio has its own build system and doesn't use nmake
> internally (unlike for example kdevelop).

nmake is different to gnu make in terms of arguments and behaviour. It's only 
similar to gnu make.

nmake is used internally by any version of VS - you can even see it in the log 
window of the GUI. Both ways of compiling is the same, the only difference is 
that using GUI requires to play with project files (if you want to perform 
adjustment) what is not something we want to do (you have a bit worse control, 
as you depend on your mouse and dialogs). It's easier to ship scripts than 
instructions "where to click".

Other thing is that we use cmake build system, on top of nmake.

Of course it may be good idea to support GUI while compiling KDE 
_applications_, but kdelibs compilation proces itself is too complex and 
multistage, IIRC, to play with GUI.

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