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> On Nov 25, 2013, at 5:05 PM, Jesse Gross <je...@nicira.com> wrote: > > They're the equivalent of makefiles for Visual Studio. Without them > you can't use the Windows-native development tools so while it's not > impossible to work it certainly makes life more difficult. One can still edit the files using a vi editor (or any other simple editor)on windows and do a make. Probably the disadvantage is that you can't use visual studio ide to write code(?). > >> On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote: >> What I'm trying to get at is, what are the "solution and related >> projects" good for? The non-Windows world does fine without them, so >> if "make" can work on Windows then why is the result "basically >> useless for any practical development purpose"? >> >>> On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 04:50:40PM -0500, Ethan Jackson wrote: >>> My understanding is that Guru is working on a solution to this >>> problem. What were your thoughts? >>> >>> Ethan >>> >>>> On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote: >>>>> On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 08:11:00PM +0000, Alessandro Pilotti wrote: >>>>> We did some testing with autoconf / automake on Windows. Makefiles >>>>> are getting generated correctly although we cannot obviously verify >>>>> the result with a full build since we didn?t port all the patches to >>>>> the master branch yet. >>>>> >>>>> There?s anyway a huge limitation: it does not generate a Visual >>>>> Studio solution and related projects, which means that it?s >>>>> basically useless for any practical development purpose. >>>> >>>> What are those files good for? >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> dev mailing list >>>> dev@openvswitch.org >>>> http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev >> _______________________________________________ >> dev mailing list >> dev@openvswitch.org >> http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
