On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 17:41:00 +0000 Alec Ross wrote:
AR> It does seem useful to have the MS .sln files in the distribution for
AR> library components and the samples. I'm assuming that this practice
AR> will be continued into 2.9.5 and beyond. Correct?
No, not for the samples. Unless we change this when we upgrade to
bakefile-1.x.
AR> - are they expected to work out of the box?
Those that we provide are, yes. Unfortunately we can't do anything if we
don't provide e.g. VS 2012 projects and importing them from a previous
version fails. Although IME it actually works just fine.
AR> That is, to just work OTB, without any additional work such as editing
AR> setup.h etc. Will this be the expected situation?
There is never any need to edit setup.h. You _may_ do it but it's entirely
optional.
When using svn you do need to copy setup0.h to setup.h but this is for svn
checkouts only.
AR> - versions: Project & .sln files for earlier versions of VS seem in my
AR> experience to convert fairly readily to later ones; but I do recall
AR> reading about issues experienced by users in doing this. Would there be
AR> enough merit in providing OTB .sln files for different versions up to,
AR> say VS10?
Yes, I think we should provide wx_vc10.sln and wx_vc11.sln with 3.0. And
we should also set the project dependencies correctly in them for the DLL
builds to work out of the box. Again, if we switch to bakefile-1.x before
then it would be simple because it handles this correctly on its own. But
if we don't, we'd need to do this manually.
Regards,
VZ
