MSVC Plugin

[Ennio Barbaro]

Heya

> Any reason you don't want to continue as-is with the MinGW-based build?
> That's no issue for us, you choose either MinGW or MSVC to build KDevelop
> on Windows.

Just because the beta installer is handy :D. I'll get a build with emerge 
soon.

> PS: Would be cool to see you join #kdevelop on Freenode (our main
> communication channel)
Of course, will do!

Ennio

On Wednesday, October 12, 2016 4:15:59 PM CEST Kevin Funk wrote:
> On Wednesday, 12 October 2016 15:43:46 CEST Ennio Barbaro wrote:
> > Hello Kdevelop-devel!
> > 
> > I am a long time Kdevelop user (since 3.5), first of all I want to
> > compliment the devs for the excellent job done with version 5.
> > 
> > I recently started to work on a plugin to import visual studio
> > projects, (mainly because that is what I have to use at work).
> 
> Heya,
> 
> That's great to hear. On point, since we've released the Windows version
> just a few days ago!
> 
> > The plugin is in a very early stage, it is available on github
> > (https://github.com/sbabbi/kdev-msvc). Feedback and contributions are
> > of course welcome.
> 
> I'll try to have a look as soon as possible. As a first step we should try
> to import the project into KDE infrastructure -- I can help with that.
> > Since the release of the windows beta installer a few days ago, I can
> > test this at my workplace, but I have to make a VS2015 build of the
> > plugin first, my local build of kdevelop is a mingw-w64 one.
> 
> Any reason you don't want to continue as-is with the MinGW-based build?
> That's no issue for us, you choose either MinGW or MSVC to build KDevelop
> on Windows.
> > I would prefer to use the beta binaries directly instead, is it
> > possible to have a development package for windows? Basically the same
> > thing as the beta installer, but with the required headers (Kf5,
> > Kdevplatform, etc.) , cmake files needed to build a plugin and .libs.
> 
> Actually that's possible of course, but I'm not sure it's worth the effort
> right now. It'd be too time consuming for us I fear.
> 
> Anything wrong with sticking to compiling KDevelop yourself on your Windows
> machine?
> 
> I'm sure you're aware of Emerge already -- but in case you aren't:
>   https://userbase.kde.org/KDevelop/Install#Microsoft_Windows
> 
> PS: Would be cool to see you join #kdevelop on Freenode (our main
> communication channel)
> 
> Welcome to KDevelop devel,
> Kevin
> 
> > Best regards!
> > Ennio Barbaro