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MaulingMonkey / VisualRust

Visual Studio extension for Rust
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Create VisualRust project structure for Rust itself. #10

Closed MaulingMonkey closed 7 years ago

MaulingMonkey commented 7 years ago

I have this partially built. The biggest caveat is that everything is built - sometimes multiple times - through x.py. Directly invoking cargo is a no go as it will generate various errors, usually related to accessing forbidden rustc internals. Of course, we're building rustc...

Boddlnagg commented 7 years ago

What is the goal of this? Building rustc is special and different from other projects in a lot of ways ...

MaulingMonkey commented 7 years ago

Two goals:

1) To make visual studio usable when hacking on rustc. This goal was achieved - I used goto definition a lot ;)

2) To stress the limits of VisualRust's project setup and see where the pain points are. I suppose this was also achieved. The idea being, if VisualRust can handle something special and different like rustc, it can probably handle everything else we can throw at it. I ended up creating an nmake project named "x" that wrapped around invoking x.py, but that was the only real bodge/hack I had to resort to.

Boddlnagg commented 7 years ago

Okay, this sounds quite nice actually 👍

MaulingMonkey commented 7 years ago

The question now is how to best share.

0) Don't - just hoard the project files. 1) Keep a fork around. This will age poorly. 2) Publish a project skeleton generation script or tool. Awkward, but might age OK. Would require a little more work. 3) Try and get them checked into rust-lang/rust itself. Awkward - they don't have any other IDE project files checked in. Might get rejected. I might reject it. Might also just be a variation on 1/2 really.

Boddlnagg commented 7 years ago

I'd probably keep it in a branch that you can rebase on a regular basis ... until it can be integrated somewhere in a more official way (either as part of VisualRust or as part of rust-lang/rust).

MaulingMonkey commented 7 years ago

https://github.com/MaulingMonkey/rust/tree/x-visual-rust-projects

I'm already 435 commits behind master :smile: