Re: [Tcl-tdbc] msvc++ build for tdbc::odbc ready for bundle

[Trevor D. (Twylite) <tw...@cr...>]

Hi,

On 2012/12/06 07:29 PM, Donald G Porter wrote:
> Empirically you and Jos Decoster are the only folks who complain about
> ability to build using MSVC (maybe Twylite too?).  I imagine your
> voices represent multitudes, but still those are the only folks I have
> evidence for caring about nmake builds.
Yep, me too ;)  But to be honest I'd rather be building with CMake, and 
I don't care much about the ability to build extensions against an 
installed runtime (rather than against sources and binaries in a build 
environment), because that's mostly broken with MSVC anyway.

> If the nmake crowd can live with fragile warnings not to build/test
> in paths with spaces, I'm not going to more effort to overrule that.
I can live with this.  I don't test in the build/test environment 
anyway, because it gives a false sense of security.  Tests need to be 
executed using the final installed configuration, and preferably on a 
system without MSVC installed.  This way you get to confirm that you 
included the correct C runtime in your install, that DLLs and packages 
can be located correctly, and that core functionality can be reasonable 
expected to work in a production environment.

Regards,
Twylite