Visualstudio solution

[FredeJ]

Migrate the solution file to Visual Studio 15.

The goal of this is to allow libtomcrypt to be made available through vcpkg (https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg/)

[karel-m]

👎 While you are able to import the old format (VS2008) into newer Visual Studio (e.g. VS2015) it is not possible the other way around. I am for keeping VS2008 compatibility.

[sjaeckel]

@FredeJ is it an option to use the makefile.msvc for your purpose?

[karel-m]

No, makefile.msvc is not what I want.

The other thing is that it is not sufficient to just save the original .vcproj as .vcxproj. Somebody has also update helper.pl so that the .vcxproj file is updated when a new source file is added, deleted or renamed.

[sjaeckel]

No, makefile.msvc is not what I want.

I asked @FredeJ ;-)

The other thing is that it is not sufficient to just save the original .vcproj as .vcxproj. Somebody has also update helper.pl so that the .vcxproj file is updated when a new source file is added, deleted or renamed.

Right, I thought that was done, but apparently it wasn't.

[karel-m]

I will support this PR only when it keeps support for both cases:

• libtomcrypt_VS2008.sln + libtomcrypt_VS2008.vcproj
• libtomcrypt_VS2015.sln + libtomcrypt_VS2015.vcxproj (not sure about having .vcxproj.filters in git)

But again, somebody has to fix helper.pl so that it is able to update .vcxproj.

[FredeJ]

@sjaeckel makefile.msvc seems to be able to get me basically 95% there. I was not aware of nmake at all but was just using msbuild, which failed with the older project and solution files.

Now all I'm missing is figuring out how to build both debug and release, and both libtomcrypt and libtommath should be buildable with vcpkg :)

[sjaeckel]

@sjaeckel makefile.msvc seems to be able to get me basically 95% there

cool :)

Now all I'm missing is figuring out how to build both debug and release, and both libtomcrypt and libtommath should be buildable with vcpkg :)

uhm, pass in some CFLAGS and change the libname for the debug build? something like nmake -f makefile.msvc CFLAGS="-MTd" LIBMAIN_S="tomcrypt-debug.lib"

I don't run windows, so I can't tell if it's exactly like that, but that should give you a direction

[enginelesscc]

👎 While you are able to import the old format (VS2008) into newer Visual Studio (e.g. VS2015) it is not possible the other way around. I am for keeping VS2008 compatibility.

Fyi, as of at least VS2022 (possibly earlier), upgrading does no longer work and its impossible to use these relict-vs solution files.

Upgrading these solution files to at least VS2010 will fix that.