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.
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