[bind10-dev] bug in Encode/Decode stuff

[Dave Hart]

On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 11:14 UTC, Francis Dupont <fdupont at isc.org> wrote:
>> Rather than rely on perl scripts to mangle your .sln/.vcproj files,
>> you may be able to share universal .sln/.vcproj files which resolve
>> library paths using environment variables.  For example, notice the
>> references to $(OPENSSL_INC) and $(OPENSSL_LIB) in these lines from
>> ports\winnt\vs2008\ntpd\ntpd.vcproj:
>
> => it doesn't change things: you have to run a tool before building,
> i.e., it doesn't matter what the pre-build does as anyway you have
> a pre-build phase... (and I am afraid you need a post-build too :-).

I'm sure what you're saying makes sense from your perspective, but
it's completely lost on me.  There is no pre-build step required to
build NTP on Windows, assuming OPENSSL_INC and OPENSSL_LIB have been
wired into the persistent user or systemwide environment variables.

> Now if you have a way to automagically build including with Express
> versions (which don't provide the command line building commands).

They may not officially support command-line building, but it works
for me using VC++ 2008 EE:

C:\ntp\ntp-4.2.7p157\ports\winnt\vs2008>vcbuild ntp.sln
Microsoft (R) Visual C++ Project Builder - Command Line Version 9.00.30729
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Build started: Project: instsrv, Configuration: Debug|Win32
Compiling...
instsrv.c

Cheers,
Dave Hart