[Fontconfig] msvcport cmake project, patch attached for review

Pavel Koshevoy pkoshevoy at gmail.com
Wed Oct 10 18:58:40 PDT 2012


On 10/10/2012 07:16 PM, Akira TAGOH wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 3:17 AM, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at behdad.org> wrote:
>> It's not my call anymore, but if it was, I would have straight rejected this
>> patchset.  First, it mixes code and buildsystem changes.  Second, it adds a
>> second parallel build system, that is doomed to be outdated most of the time...
> Yes, that's valid point and what I was concerned earlier. that said
> improving something for the native build on MSVC would be nice. though
> I still prefer to improve this with autotools as far as possible or
> just put minimal Makefile as other projects do.
>
> I should pointed out more specifically, but this patch could be
> separate to 1) cmake for MSVC 2) direct.h emulation at least.
>
> Aside from how the review is going on, we have to work out on some
> updates on autotools too since it's our build system and at least it
> won't be shipped into the archive otherwise.
>
> Anyway I can't promise anything so far when it will be merged because
> it's the sort of big patch, I'll do my best.
>


I could break up this patch into 3 separate patches.

1st patch to add FcOpen, FcAccess, FcReaddir... etc macros in config-fixups.h 
and replace system calls with these wrappers
2nd patch to add msvcport implementations of FcOpen, FcAccess, FcReaddir...
3rd patch to add msvcport/CMakeLists.txt

     Pavel.



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