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March 10, 2009
Addendum to March 9th entry: have confirmed that, when the PATH variable is augmented to include SCons lib directory, applications like test_Util.exe will run inside Studio.
To Do, a partial list
- Figure out what needs to be in a library project file to get Studio to copy the library to the SCons variant lib directory (same place the library gets installed when built by SCons).
- Get SCons to create a usable environment-setter-upper, probably a .bat file that can be run before invoking devenv.
- Currently only .cxx files are added to projects. Need .h, possibly also xml, python, etc.
- The .cxx files in the project are specified using an absolute file path. This allows Studio to find the files, but means that the project files are not portable. They must be built where used. Should either
- figure out how to express path in terms of an environment variable which translates to the root of the container. This environment variable then needs to be defined when the setup file is run.
- or make a special target for an installation which only regenerates all project and solution files.
- Don't know how to make a solution file referencing all the projects in a package. When I try the obvious thing from within SCons, invoking MSVSSolution( ), the resulting file uses paths to the SCons build area rather than real destination of the file. The ones in the build area are not (and are not intended to be) usable as project files. When I tried adding a second project to a solution file from within Studio it balked.
- Is it possible to encode dependency information of one project on another in a project file? If so, get SCons to add this information to the project files.
March 9, 2009
Can now generate a project file for facilities library which almost does the right thing (everything except for putting outputs where I thought I asked it to) and project files for facilities apps which link but don't run, probably because PATH doesn't include directory of facilities.lib
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