Should have Visual C++ 2008 and/or 2010 [Express] solution(s)/project(s)

[pphaneuf]

[pphaneuf]

It would be a good idea to include solution and project files for Visual C++ 2008 and/or 2010; 2008 Express's upgrade wizard doesn't support saving the converted files under new names, and upgrading in-place seems like it could get pretty messy with the version control.

One important advantage over 2005 is that 2005 Express lacks the native platform headers normally found in the PlatformSDK subdirectory of a VC install, such as windows.h and winsock.h, which introduces the complication of having to install the Platform SDK separately and ensure that all of the necessary directories from the Platform SDK are included in the appropriate search paths. Not fun at all.

Of course, this would also allow use of whatever new features were added the in 2008/2010 [Express], some which I seem to recall actually being/sounding pretty handy, though I can't recall what they are :-).

I'm unsure whether the project file format has changed enough between 2008 and 2010 that separate solutions/projects would be required; I hope not expect that it probably has :-(.

[pphaneuf]

Does that mean you could get things working a bit better with 2005? I did have some ideas of using gyp ("generate your project"), which uses it's own single file format, and then outputs all the native files required for building on all sorts of platforms (makefiles, Xcode, MSVC, etc)... It would at least ensure that the projects are minimally adequate (maybe they'd miss some Win32 specific things, but they would have the right list of source files, say).