RE: Are there Windows users of cons?

[Anthony Kolarik]

I found Greg's extensions very valuable in a VC++ development environment. 

And actually Zach gave me a nice little script for creating conscript files from .dsp files, that worked well with Greg's stuff. 

After fixing the command line overflow problem, fixing the msdev hard link breakage problem, adding support for compiling single files from within .dsp files, and adding support for compiling .idl files, people were pretty happy with it.

It'd be much easier to recommend converting to cons at my current job if I could point people to a straightforward conversion path from the current msdev based build system (I left all my fixes ect. at the last place, and don't have time to retrace my steps).  I don't know the numbers but I'd be somewhat surprised if msdev/VC++ accounts for less than 80% of the C/C++ development done on the various windows variants so if cons wants to "do windows" its probably worth it to add support for the 800 pound gorilla, in addition to the various windows specific build targets and ancillary file types. 

That said, I imagine VC++ 7 and all the .NET stuff will probably be out soon, and with it probably a whole new slew of un/under-documented file types, microsoft buildisms, and bugs to work around. 

Onward and upward!
 -- Tony K.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary Oberbrunner [mailto:address@hidden]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 3:06 PM
> To: address@hidden; address@hidden
> Subject: RE: Are there Windows users of cons?
>
>
> Zachary Deretsky wrote:
>  > During the last YEAR there has been ZERO Windows support for cons.
>  > Nothing was done in this area, and this is in the open
> source development
>  > which prides itself on fast response.
>
> Hmm.  I use cons regularly on Windows and Irix (and soon to
> be Linux and
> MacOS X), with no problems.  I use bash as the shell for
> invoking commands,
> so I don't get the long-link-command problem.  I don't use
> the Visual Studio
> environment except for the debugger, so I guess I haven't
> seen that problem
> either.  But I do think that Windows support in general is
> very important.
>
> I have noticed that Johan Holmberg's Cons::Plus and Greg Spencer's
> ConsExtensions.pl conflict in a few areas (sorry, I forget
> exactly where);
> I'd like to see them both integrated into cons in a
> compatible way.  I'm
> currently using Cons::Plus because it can be taught about the
> .cxx extension
> and the nice $env->print method (I actually find the compiler
> myself via the
> registry), but it sure would be nice to easily generate
> project files and
> all the ancillary files that Greg's stuff knows about.
>
> -- Gary Oberbrunner
>
>
>
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