[x264-devel] MSVC project files

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On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:35:12 +0100, Adam Billyard wrote:
> I totally agree carrying MSVC would be a bit of a pain..

> But given if you want to compile in MSVC, you're likely a programmer,
> its a 10 minute job to install cygwin and you're all done..no?

> Or is it the *debugging* of x264 from within VC that people are after?



> On 30 Sep 2009, at 17:25, Steven Walters wrote:

>>> A patch to fix compilation in MSVC is very welcome. A lot of people  
>>> have
>>> problems with this.
>>> I recommend committing the patch that fixes the project files and  
>>> including
>>> the c99 patch file inside the projects directory, so that MSVC  
>>> users will
>>> always have access to the most up-to-date version of the patch to  
>>> fix c99
>>> problems.
>>
>> So you're saying that in addition to the overly large project files,
>> we need to also keep and maintain a patch to support its brokenness?
>> That's no different than supporting it directly and has already been
>> stated that it is not going to happen.
>>
>> Like I've already stated earlier, i think the project files are not
>> worth the bloat nor separate patches to be supported,
>> I would see doing something like this patch, I've been working every
>> once in a while, being more efficient.
>> http://kemuri9.net/dev/x264/patches/experimental/x264_msvc_configure.diff
>> Which is to have a configure script for MSVC and have the Makefile CMD
>> prompt compatible.
>> It would take only minor editing to have it support ICL.
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Yes, debugging is also the factor for keeping VC. It is sometimes pain
for me to debug in gdb so I prefer to debug in VC (if possible). That
is why I update today my MSVC2008 patch for x264:
http://komisar.gin.by/x.patch/BugMaster/20090926/x264_msvc2008/
So if somebody really needed VC you can use it.