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Marius Storm-Olsen 259d87c354 Add scripts to generate projects for other buildsystems (MSVC vcproj, QMake)
These scripts generate projects for the MSVC IDE (.vcproj files) or
QMake (.pro files), based on the output of a 'make -n MSVC=1 V=1' run.

This enables us to simply do the necesarry changes in the Makefile, and you
can update the other buildsystems by regenerating the files. Keeping the
other buildsystems up-to-date with main development.

The generator system is designed to easily drop in pm's for other
buildsystems as well, if someone has an itch. However, the focus has been
Windows development, so the 'engine' might need patches to support any
platform.

Also add some .gitignore entries for MSVC files.

Signed-off-by: Marius Storm-Olsen <mstormo@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-09-18 20:00:42 -07:00

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The Steps of Build Git with VS2008
1. You need the build environment, which contains the Git dependencies
to be able to compile, link and run Git with MSVC.
You can either use the binary repository:
WWW: http://repo.or.cz/w/msvcgit.git
Git: git clone git://repo.or.cz/msvcgit.git
Zip: http://repo.or.cz/w/msvcgit.git?a=snapshot;h=master;sf=zip
and call the setup_32bit_env.cmd batch script before compiling Git,
(see repo/package README for details), or the source repository:
WWW: http://repo.or.cz/w/gitbuild.git
Git: git clone git://repo.or.cz/gitbuild.git
Zip: (None, as it's a project with submodules)
and build the support libs as instructed in that repo/package.
2. Ensure you have the msysgit environment in your path, so you have
GNU Make, bash and perl available.
WWW: http://repo.or.cz/w/msysgit.git
Git: git clone git://repo.or.cz/msysgit.git
Zip: http://repo.or.cz/w/msysgit.git?a=snapshot;h=master;sf=zip
This environment is also needed when you use the resulting
executables, since Git might need to run scripts which are part of
the git operations.
3. Inside Git's directory run the command:
make common-cmds.h
to generate the common-cmds.h file needed to compile git.
4. Then either build Git with the GNU Make Makefile in the Git projects
root
make MSVC=1
or generate Visual Studio solution/projects (.sln/.vcproj) with the
command
perl contrib/buildsystems/generate -g Vcproj
and open and build the solution with the IDE
devenv git.sln /useenv
or build with the IDE build engine directly from the command line
devenv git.sln /useenv /build "Release|Win32"
The /useenv option is required, so Visual Studio picks up the
environment variables for the support libraries required to build
Git, which you set up in step 1.
Done!