Visual Studio?

[Kevin Stange]

Kurt Koller wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> I saw a thread back in May and June of 2007 that looked like someone was
> attempting to set things up in a way that one could compile libpurple and
> perhaps all of pidgin in Visual Studio.

I believe Nick Hebner listed a simple procedure for "importing" the 
project into Visual Studio, but besides making some adjustments to fix 
compilation and avoid a crash, I believe no other changes were 
introduced at that time.

> 
> Then in July or August there is a request from someone about whether anyone
> has the full setup for Visual Studio, but there was no reply.

I would presume by lack of response that no such environment exists 
among people who follow development closely.  The Windows-"friendly" 
developers of Pidgin prefer to use MinGW gcc with a shell environment, 
so that is the only "supported" method at the moment.  If you are able 
to come up with additional files needed for the VS process we can 
certainly add them as long as they don't interfere with the normal build 
environment terribly.

> 
> I'm curious what the status on that is. I prefer to develop for Windows
> using the VS IDE, no religion or anything. I'd tackle it myself but if some
> or all of the work has been done already I'd rather not be a stooge and do
> it again.

As I said above, I do not believe that anyone is maintaining a working 
VS environment for Pidgin or libpurple.  You might want to check for or 
open a tracking ticket at developer.pidgin.im and keep us updated there 
with your progress and any relevant patches to the build environment.

Kevin

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