On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 11:22 PM, Wei-Cheng Pan <w...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> This is great! > > Just few questions: > > Can we debug firefox in the IDE during mochitest? > > i.e.: ./mach mochitest --debugger=devenv > I think we'll need some magic in the mach commands to make this work the way you want it to. Please file a bug and CC gps and Nat. > > Does it supports nmake as well? > No. It effectively shells out to `mach build` for the heavy lifting. > > Thanks. > > Wei-Cheng Pan > > On 5/25/16 7:00 AM, Gregory Szorc wrote: > > Coming soon to your local builds, Visual Studio project files will be > > generated automatically when building on Windows because we want to > > encourage more people to use them because fully-featured IDEs can be > > productivity wins. > > > > The Visual Studio projects now automatically target the Visual Studio > > version being used (1 week ago they would always generate VS2013 project > > files). Another new change is that unless the build configuration > changes, > > the Visual Studio files won't be updated by the build system unless they > > need changed. That means if you do a pull+build when Visual Studio is > open, > > you shouldn't get tons of warnings that you need to reload files to pick > up > > changes. > > > > The Visual Studio integration isn't perfect. We'd like to encourage more > > development on Windows because that's where most Firefox users are. So if > > you'd like improvements to the Visual Studio project files, please file > > Core :: Build Config bugs. > > > > This change was tracked in bug 1275297. Bug 1275419 tracks a follow-up to > > allow disabling their generation. > > _______________________________________________ > > dev-platform mailing list > > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
