Yes, I am being persistent and I will not let it drop til I get a definitive answer from Linden Lab.
On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 10:42 AM, Cinder Roxley <cin...@alchemyviewer.org> wrote: > On February 4, 2015 at 8:18:19 AM, Nicky Perian (nickyper...@gmail.com) > wrote: > > Underneath BuildConsole which I assume is a wrapper to prepare an internal > build request likely calls Devenv or MSBuild. Both are available in Pro and > CE. Express only has MSBuild. > > Building from a blank build-vc120 with Devenv provides a significant build > time improvement over MSBuild. However, a note on MS's web page for Denenv > indicate that MSBuild should be used. That note has been present since > VS2010 release. My thoughts are that the note was there with aim of easing > the transition for C# and .NET developers that had historically used > MSBuild into C++. > > One additional point. Singularity Viewer project still uses develop.py and > it internally calls devenv.com with no bad result, as far as I know. > > For the list: > Should autobuild.xml call MSBuild or Devenv? > > > Hi, > > You keep asking this question expecting another response, I guess. As > stated both here and on jira, Microsoft recommends MSBuild going forward. > All major build server products use MSBuild. Singularity uses MSBuild and > only falls back to devenv.exe when MSBuild is not available or broken. VS > Express is a dead product as Microsoft will no longer be making new > versions of it. > > VC projects can be slower on MSBuild because it has to do some backflips > to build them (they’re not in MSBuild format). MSBuild also supports > options that devenv does not (like increased verbosity). Coincidently, the > switch from devenv to MSBuild has very little to do with .NET and more to > do with the removal of VCBuild on favour of MSBuild. In anything newer than > VS2010 devenv just calls MSBuild anyway! > > Hope this helps. > > -- > Cinder Roxley > Sent with Airmail > > _______________________________________________ > Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: > http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev > Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting > privileges >
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