[Speex-dev] [PATCH] Add Visual Studio 2008 Prject files

[Peter Grayson]

On Dec 3, 2007 1:24 PM, Stefan Reuther <streu at gmx.de> wrote:
> John Miles wrote:
> > What's wrong with a plain old .bat file, or even an NMAKE .mak file?
> > Ship two files, debug.bat and release.bat, and call it good.
> >
> > It is best to leave project-file creation up to individual users,
> > in my opinion.
>
> I second that. When I played around with Speex a while ago, I just
> dumped the Speex source files into a .dsp file (Visual Studio Project),
> and built that. For another environment, I made a 25 line Makefile
> (essentially, a SOURCE = ..... line plus the auto-dependency example
> code from the GNU make manual).
>
> The only "problem" is to find out what files are needed for the library
> and which are superfluous (i.e. test/demo programs with their own
> main()). A minimal Makefile would help to document that, and enable
> people create projects, with minimum effort, for all sorts of
> environments nobody ever heard of.

For those people building on Windows, please use the automake/autoconf
build system as your reference. The .c files needed to build the speex
libraries are spelled out quite concisely and explicitly in
libspeex/Makefile.am.

Creating yet another build system for speex would, IMHO, only serve to
obfuscate and cause yet more build-related chatter on this list.

Pete