[ovs-dev] Autoconf limits on Windows

[Ben Pfaff]

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 <blp at 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?
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