[ovs-dev] Autoconf limits on Windows

[Ben Pfaff]

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?