[opensource-dev] Viewer Tools Upgrades - with a call for help

[Nicky Perian]

Yes, I am being persistent and I will not let it drop til I get a
definitive answer from Linden Lab.

On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 10:42 AM, Cinder Roxley <cinder at alchemyviewer.org>
wrote:

> On February 4, 2015 at 8:18:19 AM, Nicky Perian (nickyperian at gmail.com)
> wrote:
>
> Underneath BuildConsole which I assume is a wrapper to prepare an internal
> build request likely calls Devenv or MSBuild. Both are available in Pro and
> CE. Express only has MSBuild.
>
> Building from a blank build-vc120 with Devenv provides a significant build
> time improvement over MSBuild. However, a note on MS's web page for Denenv
> indicate that MSBuild should be used. That note has been present since
> VS2010 release. My thoughts are that the note was there with aim of easing
> the transition for C# and .NET developers that had historically used
> MSBuild into C++.
>
> One additional point. Singularity Viewer project still uses develop.py and
> it internally calls devenv.com with no bad result, as far as I know.
>
> For the list:
> Should autobuild.xml call MSBuild or Devenv?
>
>
> Hi,
>
> You keep asking this question expecting another response, I guess. As
> stated both here and on jira, Microsoft recommends MSBuild going forward.
> All major build server products use MSBuild. Singularity uses MSBuild and
> only falls back to devenv.exe when MSBuild is not available or broken. VS
> Express is a dead product as Microsoft will no longer be making new
> versions of it.
>
> VC projects can be slower on MSBuild because it has to do some backflips
> to build them (they’re not in MSBuild format). MSBuild also supports
> options that devenv does not (like increased verbosity). Coincidently, the
> switch from devenv to MSBuild has very little to do with .NET and more to
> do with the removal of VCBuild on favour of MSBuild. In anything newer than
> VS2010 devenv just calls MSBuild anyway!
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> --
> Cinder Roxley
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