Switching (back) to MSVC (Re: [Vm-dev] What generates disabledPlugins.c?0

[Andreas Raab]

On 7/22/2010 12:07 PM, Geoffroy Couprie wrote:
>     I'm not sure I understand. What point is there in "generating"
>     Makefiles? I've never generated any Makefiles for my builds, why
>     would an extra indirection be advantageous?
>
> Again, for convenience: you can detect if all the required libraries are
> present, add user specified paths (instead of hard-coded paths in the
> actual Makefile), and if you add files to the cross directory, you only
> have to modify one file to enable compilation on Windows and Linux.
> I can understand if you prefer writing Makefiles by hand, instead of
> using autotools, but CMake is really easy to use, and can create
> Makefiles for Linux, MSVC and MinGW, with no extra effort.

Seriously? You mean that if I drop the stuff from 
http://eleves.ec-lille.fr/~couprieg/divers/patches.zip into my build 
tree cmake will magically generate MSVC build files and it'll just work? 
If that's actually true, I'm sold :-)

I'll try it tonight.

Cheers,
   - Andreas