RE: [Mingw-users] Moving from Visual C++

[Juan C. A. B. <jc...@ro...>]

At 07:01 PM 9/16/2000 -0400, Castro, Edison M. (PCA) wrote:

>Do you know that you can just create makefiles from Visual Studio?.

    Yes, I know. That was the first thing I did. I just want to keep the 
IDE completely out of the build loop.

    Besides, the other two reasons to build customized makefiles (although 
it's a little further down the line) are to get the thing compilable for 
other platforms and to be able to generate different kinds of builds. For 
example, LIB-based vs. DLL-based, Debug vs. Optimized vs. Release, Checked 
vs. NonChecked. I already have too many "Configurations". I don't want to 
have to keep adding them all by hand every time I start a new project in 
the workspace, mind you.

>No-one uses the IDE to compile large projects.

    :) I can see why.

>People use the OLE-automation
>interface to the IDE or they generate makefiles and use NMAKE to compile it.
>Since we compile several millions lines of code using any one of this
>methods, just choose your weapon.

    I've already chosen. Now I just have to learn how to use it properly. 
That "OLE-automation interface to the IDE" intrigues me. Can you specify 
exactly what you mean? Off-the-list, please. We're fully OT at this point.


    Salutaciones,
                               JCAB

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