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tmandry / lavender

Generate Visual Studio projects for Bazel (experimental)
MIT License
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Closed jart closed 6 years ago

jart commented 6 years ago

This might interest you.

tmandry commented 6 years ago

Very cool! I would support a bazel dist or something similar one day. Going to CMake makes sense, but a Makefile is very clean and doesn't require extra tools. I guess CMake could be leveraged for its detection of compilers.

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jart commented 6 years ago

I'm kind of agnostic to tooling and I'm happy with whatever, so long as it builds and meets requirements without too much fuss. Out of curiosity, as someone who knows more about Windows development than me, what's your take on https://github.com/richfelker/musl-cross-make and https://midipix.org/? I've heard rumors that if we combine Musl and Midipix, we can have native POSIX on Windows without Cygwin or MinGW or DLLs or anything like that.

tmandry commented 6 years ago

@jart I'm not that knowledgeable about it actually 😄 I created this to help transition my team to bazel, and some of them are avid users of Visual Studio.

Regarding Musl/Midipix, that sounds great. It would definitely simplify a lot of things. Right now our codebase uses lots of #ifdefs and some features/applications only work on Linux. Cygwin/Msys2 are okay but there are a lot of papercuts / things that don't work as expected..