[Mono-dev] Ideas for Mono on Windows

[Jonathan Chambers]

Paolo,
     Thanks for the response.

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 9:01 AM, Paolo Molaro <lupus at ximian.com> wrote:

> On 11/11/08 Jonathan Chambers wrote:
> > 1) We should consider using MSVC as the default compiler for C code on
> > Windows. I can compile the entire Visual Studio solution for the runtime
> in
> > minutes. It takes 20-30 seconds if I do a parallel build. We can also use
> > the Visual Studio debugger on Windows, which IMO is betten than gdb on
> > Windows.
>
> So this is already done by you, AFAIK. I even add new .c files to the MSVC
> build
> files (when I remember about it:).
>
> > it). Another option is to moved to MSBuild/xbuild for the class
> libraries.
>
> I think you're taking it from the wrong side.
> There is no need to move the Linux build system to xbuild or whatever.
> As other have mentioned, the build files can be generated from the
> .sources files quite easily. You can write the conversion script in perl
> or even C# and we can have rules in the makefiles to run them
> automatically when the source files are modified.


>
> AFAIK, the only two things missing are:
> 1) a windows developer that volunteers writing the script and
> MSBuild/xbuild files.


I have started writing this tool in C#. It correctly generates a csproj file
from the Makefile and the <library>.dll.sources files. It already works on
most assemblies in mcs/class. I'm working on generating the corresponding
NUnit projects as well.I'll hopefully post something in a couple of days.

>
> 2) a windows developer that documents the thing for other windows
> developers so they are not tricked into going down the cygwin route
> anymore and just click on the right buttons instead.


I can also look into this once a full build is working. Not to mention the
fact the xbuild needs a good bit of work.


>
> As you see we only need some windows developer to step up to the plate.
> I suggest starting to build the complete assemblies first, without
> going into the details of bootstrapping. This should take an hour or
> two. And then we (mostly hari I guess) can help with the bootstrap
> details.
>
> So, who volunteers?


I would appreciate any help offered by others ;-). Hacking on xbuild
(including contributing tests) would be expecially useful...

Thanks,
Jonathan


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