[Mono-dev] Sharing build specs between MS VS .net 2005 and monoon Linux

[Marek Sieradzki]

On 9/15/06, Michael Jerris <mike at jerris.com> wrote:
> > From: mono-devel-list-bounces at lists.ximian.com
> [mailto:mono-devel-list-
> > bounces at lists.ximian.com] On Behalf Of Mads Bondo Dydensborg
> > Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 11:13 AM
> > To: mono-devel-list at lists.ximian.com
> > Subject: Re: [Mono-dev] Sharing build specs between MS VS .net 2005
> and
> > monoon Linux
> >
> > >
> > > Optimally, xbuild would support new msbuild format files, and
> > > switching between mono and ms.net would be a complete no brainer :-)
> >
> > Yes, this would be ideel. I am not a big MS fan myself, but it seems
> that
> > MSBuild is a sensible system (inspired by nant, apparently). Having a
> > compatible crossplatform tool for mono would appear to be a good
> thing.
> > Especially since this would allow the Windows developers to remain in
> > Visual
> > Studio all the time, which appears to be a high priority for them...
>
> Another interesting tool to look at would be bakefile.  I don't believe
> it has mono support at this point, but it seems to be approaching the
> same sort's of issues, and already has quite a bit of support for visual
> studio and makefiles and several other output types.  I like their
> approach.  This is the build tool being developed for WxWidgets.
>
NAnt should be used until xbuild is usable.