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From: "Norman Vine" <nhv AT cape DOT com>
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Subject: RE: OT: MS Visual C++ Makefiles
Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 11:22:08 -0500
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Christopher Faylor writes:
>
>On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 12:57:17PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 11:21:55AM -0000, Simon McCaughey wrote:
>>>Has anyone ever written a makefile converter so that a project written
>>>in MS VC++ can be compiled with gcc?
>>>
>>>Would anyone else find this useful?
>>
>>This *might* be OT but actually I would find that useful, yes.  I have
>>no idea if sth.  like that already exists.
>
>I don't think it's OT.  I've wanted this from time to time myself.
>
>(Sorry for the me too, but I wanted to address the OTness)

Jose Fonseca has written a couple of handy scripts for converting
MSVC projects -> MingW makefiles

http://mefriss1.swan.ac.uk/~jfonseca/gnu-win32/software/msds/index.html

Cheers

Norman

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