Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Win32 generation toolchain (perl, python, bash, ...) and config.nmake

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 23, 2004, at 11:18 AM, prosen wrote:

> 5) MSVC users tend to like DSW and DSP files instead of make files. 
> They
> make it convenient to use the IDE.

If

	1) the IDE supports using arbitrary tools to build files (for example, 
using the Perl script "process-x11-fields.pl" to generate 
"x11-declarations.h" and "x11-register-info.h"

and

	2) either there's a way to include "Makefile.common" to get lists of 
source files in the project or somebody writes a tool to generate .dsw 
and .dsp files from Makefile.am and Makefile.common

then MSVC++ users might get what they'd like.  Otherwise, it's very 
unlikely to happen - you're not going to get all users who add new 
source files to Ethereal firing up the Visual Studio tools to update 
the .dsw file every time a file is added, as some of those users don't 
have anything that can run Visual Studio (yes, I know about Wine, but 
not everybody doing Ethereal development necessarily has it - or even 
has a machine capable of running x86 code!).