[ovs-dev] Autoconf limits on Windows

[Alessandro Pilotti]

Hi guys,

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.

Does anybody know a way around this? If not, IMO there are two available options:

1) Move the build system to CMake like we already did for 1.9 (I can already hear the "boohs" :-))
2) Generate the Visual Studio solution and projects files and keep them up to date with the Autoconf counterpart.

I’m personally fine even with the second option given the absence of impact on the rest of the project, although mantaining two build systems adds some overhead.

Does anybody have other ideas?


Thanks,

Alessandro







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