Martin v. Loewis wrote:
No. Microsoft has dropped that feature (perhaps they will restore it in VS.NET 2005 or something :-(
However, it is now simpler to process project files; they are XML files with a fairly obvious vocabulary (*). A friend of mine once wrote a generator that produces GNU makefiles out of vcproj files; such generators tend to be quite application-specific, as they need to take custom build steps into account, and translate them properly. Most likely, the generator we would use would not be useful outside Python.
I can suggest the fact that Scons can handle multiple builders (cygwin, mingw, VC6, VC7, VC7.1) easily and for VC it can generate the proper Project files? Can be a solution to support a single scons (makefile like) file and from that generate the proper project files? Users that wants to keep working with the IDE can do that! A free solution for a user that want to build python in a win32 environment without Visual Studio (whatever edition) could be: - Download python (from 1.5.2 above) and scons (as a make replacement) - Build python with the free Microsoft SDK compiler via scons. Scons has also an integrated autoconf-like environment, so it's possible to have a path to unify the classic configure/make *nix way with the win32 one. BTW, scons makefiles are just python files! Think only about the *update the python build number* problem that arose some times ago! It's trivial if handled by a builder script with-python-steroids! --- Paolo Invernizzi