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

[Harald O. <har...@el...>]

Am 07.12.2012 08:47, schrieb Trevor Davel (Twylite):> 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.

How does the CMAKE build work ?
Should we pass from nmake to cmake ?

>
>> 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.

Yes, but this is another purpose.
The test suite will tell you, if you have done something wrong in your
code. Both tests are helpful.
At least, I tried to get the test suite work in the installation folder,
which tells you, if the build is correct (and stresses your nerves to
make this work).

Harald