[Mono-dev] GSoC Proposal : FreshBuild - Help XBuild to Support MSVC and GCC , and Translating Makefiles to MSBuild Projects

[Sharique uddin Ahmed Farooqui]

Hi,

This is a good idea, this is something very much needed.
+1 from me,
Best wishes..
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Sharique uddin Ahmed Farooqui
http://safknw.blogspot.com/
"Peace" is the Ultimate desire of mankind.



On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Sharp Blade无厚之刃
<sharper.than.bladez at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
>    My name is Jiangcheng Jiang ,or you may call me Sharp.I‘ve been
> planning to improve the XBuild so as to provide MSVC and GCC support
> as a GSoC project.More importantly,I would like to develop a Makefile
> to MSBuild Project translator to take place of GNU Make.This project
> is intended to simplify the building process on both the Windows and
> Linux platform and reduce building  problems.Also,many opensource
> projects would benefit from the MSVC compiler in terms of performance.
>
>    Here are my goals:
>    1.A MSBuild extension to support MSVC on windows,which is the same
> as the official one .
>    2.A MSBuild extension to support GCC on both windows and linux
>    3.A makefile translator.
>    4.A visualizing tool to edit MSBuild projects
>    4.A build server for freshbuild
>
>    For such a project,there would always be plenty of test projects
> for me.And I would take the ruby installer as my target.
>    I am eager for you feedbacks.
>
> Sharp (Jiacheng Jiang)
> sharper.than.bladez at gmail.com
> South China University of Technology
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