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2009-10-08Fix the exit code of MSVC build scripts on cygwinLibravatar Ramsay Jones2-2/+2
During an MSVC build on cygwin, the make program did not notice when the compiler or linker exited with an error. This was caused by the scripts exiting with the value returned by system() directly. On POSIX-like systems, such as cygwin, the return value of system() has the exit code of the executed command encoded in the first byte (ie the value is shifted up by 8 bits). This allows the bottom 7 bits to contain the signal number of a terminated process, while the eighth bit indicates whether a core-dump was produced. (A value of -1 indicates that the command failed to execute.) The make program, however, expects the exit code to be encoded in the bottom byte. Futhermore, it apparently masks off and ignores anything in the upper bytes. However, these scripts are (naturally) intended to be used on the windows platform, where we can not assume POSIX-like semantics from a perl implementation (eg ActiveState). So, in general, we can not assume that shifting the return value right by eight will get us the exit code. In order to improve portability, we assume that a zero return from system() indicates success, whereas anything else indicates failure. Since we don't need to know the exact exit code from the compiler or linker, we simply exit with 0 (success) or 1 (failure). Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-09-18Add scripts to generate projects for other buildsystems (MSVC vcproj, QMake)Libravatar Marius Storm-Olsen1-1/+12
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>
2009-09-18Add README for MSVC buildLibravatar Marius Storm-Olsen1-0/+39
Based on original README patch from Frank Li, describe the steps to build git with VS2008 (aka MSVC). 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>
2009-09-18Add MSVC to MakefileLibravatar Marius Storm-Olsen2-0/+74
Enable MSVC builds with GNU Make by simply calling make MSVC=1 (Debug build possible by adding DEBUG=1 as well) Two scripts, clink.pl and lib.pl, are used to convert certain GCC specific command line options into something MSVC understands. By building for MSVC with GNU Make, we can ensure that the MSVC port always follows the latest code, and does not lag behind due to unmaintained NMake Makefile or IDE projects. 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>
2009-09-18Add MinGW header files to build git with MSVCLibravatar Frank Li5-0/+256
Added the header files dirent.h, unistd.h and utime.h Add alloca.h, which simply includes malloc.h, which defines alloca(). Signed-off-by: Frank Li <lznuaa@gmail.com> 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>
2009-09-18Add empty header files for MSVC portLibravatar Marius Storm-Olsen14-0/+14
MSVC lacks many of the header files included by git-compat-util.h; add blank header files for these instead of going ifdef crazy. 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>