[webkit-dev] Using Visual Studio 2010 for Apple's Windows WebKit port

[Jake]

I regularly build qtwebkit with VS2010 so the only real issue should be with
project files. I did use the conversion wizard once on webkit/chromium and
was able to build successfully with only a couple of minor tweaks.

I'd be happy to do the legwork on the VS2010 upgrade if it'd help.

-Jake


On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 7:31 AM, Adam Roben <aroben at apple.com> wrote:

> On Jan 31, 2011, at 9:04 PM, Jeremy Orlow wrote:
>
> How hard will the transition be?  If it's going to take a lot of time and
> cause a lot of churn anyway, would this be a good time to try and make that
> port use GYP or CMake?  (I assume the answer is probably no, but figured it
> was worth asking anyway. :-)
>
>
> VS2010 includes a project conversion wizard that can convert projects from
> VS2005 (and presumably VS2008) format to VS2010. We've tried it previously
> on WebKit and it seemed to work just fine with only minor issues.
>
> The goal of having fewer project files is a worthy one, however. Patrick
> Gansterer offered to code up a patch to build Apple's Windows port using the
> existing CMake build system, which will be very interesting to see!
>
> -Adam
>
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Adam Roben <aroben at apple.com> wrote:
>
>> On Jan 31, 2011, at 3:41 PM, Peter Kasting wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Adam Roben <aroben at apple.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Please let me (and the list) know if this change will cause you trouble,
>>> and if there's something we can do to make the transition easier.
>>>
>>
>> This may make life hard on Chromium as right now we don't support building
>> with VS2010.  We are working on adding support (I think
>> http://crbug.com/25628 may be the closest bug).  I'm not sure what time
>> frame that will happen in.
>>
>> I don't think we have any plans to drop VS2005 support.  If WebKit drops
>> support it may force us to do so as well.
>>
>> In both cases above we're not so much impacted by vcproj/sln changes
>> (since we use GYP to construct our vcproj and sln files) as we are by code
>> changes, e.g. code that requires VS2010 to build correctly.
>>
>>
>> I doubt that maintaining compatibility with VS2005's compiler would be an
>> issue. As long as there's an EWS and/or buildbot to catch problems, we
>> should be able to work around any compiler differences. I didn't mean to
>> imply that we'd intentionally break compilation with VS2005's compiler; all
>> I meant was that using VS2005 to build Apple's port would no longer be
>> supported.
>>
>> -Adam
>>
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