git/contrib/buildsystems/Generators, branch master

contrib/buildsystems: drop support for building . vcproj/.vcxproj files

2025-05-05T21:15:19Z

Before we had CMake support, the only way to build Git in Visual Studio was via this hacky `generate` script. For a while I tried to fix whenever things got broken, in particular to allow building confidence in embargoed releases by running the CI builds in Azure Pipelines in a private Azure DevOps project. I even carried the patches in Git for Windows with the intention of upstreaming them, eventually. However, it is a lot of work with too little benefit. CMake is much better supported by Visual Studio. So let's drop this hacky script (plus support code). Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

win32: add a helper to run `git.exe` without a foreground window

2023-08-09T20:58:13Z

On Windows, there are two kinds of executables, console ones and non-console ones. Git's executables are all console ones. When launching the former e.g. in a scheduled task, a CMD window pops up. This is not what we want for the tasks installed via the `git maintenance` command. To work around this, let's introduce `headless-git.exe`, which is a non-console program that does _not_ pop up any window. All it does is to re-launch `git.exe`, suppressing that console window, passing through all command-line arguments as-are. Helped-by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón Helped-by: Yuyi Wang Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

reftable: utility functions

2021-10-08T17:45:48Z

This commit provides basic utility classes for the reftable library. Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys Helped-by: Johannes Schindelin Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

contrib/buildsystems: fix expat library name for generated vcxproj

2020-09-08T21:50:00Z

expat.lib -> libexpat.lib (libexpatd.lib for debug build). Signed-off-by: Orgad Shaneh Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Merge branch 'js/azure-pipelines-msvc'

2019-10-15T04:48:00Z

CI updates. * js/azure-pipelines-msvc: ci: also build and test with MS Visual Studio on Azure Pipelines ci: really use shallow clones on Azure Pipelines tests: let --immediate and --write-junit-xml play well together test-tool run-command: learn to run (parts of) the testsuite vcxproj: include more generated files vcxproj: only copy `git-remote-http.exe` once it was built msvc: work around a bug in GetEnvironmentVariable() msvc: handle DEVELOPER=1 msvc: ignore some libraries when linking compat/win32/path-utils.h: add #include guards winansi: use FLEX_ARRAY to avoid compiler warning msvc: avoid using minus operator on unsigned types push: do not pretend to return `int` from `die_push_simple()`

vcxproj: only copy `git-remote-http.exe` once it was built

2019-10-06T00:07:44Z

In b18ae14a8f6 (vcxproj: also link-or-copy builtins, 2019-07-29), we started to copy or hard-link the built-ins as a post-build step of the `git` project. At the same time, we tried to copy or hard-link `git-remote-http.exe`, but it is quite possible that it was not built at that time. Let's move that latter task into a post-install step of the `git-remote-http` project instead. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

contrib/buildsystems: fix Visual Studio Debug configuration

2019-09-28T04:43:36Z

Even though Debug configuration builds, the resulting build is incorrect in a subtle way: it mixes up Debug and Release binaries, which in turn causes hard-to-predict bugs. In my case, when git calls iconv library, iconv sets 'errno' and git then tests it, but in Debug and Release CRT those 'errno' are different memory locations. This patch addresses 3 connected bugs: 1) Typo in '\(Configuration)'. As a result, Debug configuration condition is always false and Release path is taken instead. 2) Regexp that replaced 'zlib.lib' with 'zlibd.lib' was only affecting the first occurrence. However, some projects have it listed twice. Previously this bug was hidden, because Debug path was never taken. I decided that avoiding double -lz in makefile is fragile and I'd better replace all occurrences instead. 3) In Debug, 'libcurl-d.lib' should be used instead of 'libcurl.lib'. Previously this bug was hidden, because Debug path was never taken. Signed-off-by: Alexandr Miloslavskiy Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

vcxproj: also link-or-copy builtins

2019-07-29T21:51:43Z

The default location for `.exe` files linked by Visual Studio depends on the mode (debug vs release) and the architecture. Meaning: after a full build, there is a `git.exe` in the top-level directory, but none of the built-ins are linked.. When running a test script in Git Bash, it therefore would pick up the wrong, say, `git-receive-pack.exe`: the one installed at the same time as the Git Bash. Absolutely not what we want. We want to have confidence that our test covers the MSVC-built Git executables, and not some random stuff. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

contrib/buildsystems: add a backend for modern Visual Studio versions

2019-07-29T21:51:43Z

Based on the previous patches in this patch series that fixed the generator for `.vcproj` files (which were used by Visual Studio prior to 2015 to define projects), this patch offers to generate project definitions for neweer versions of Visual Studio (which use `.vcxproj` files). To that end, this patch copy-edits the generator of the `.vcproj`. In addition, we now use the `vcpkg` system which allows us to build Git's dependencies (e.g. curl, libexpat) conveniently. The support scripts were introduced in the `jh/msvc` patch series, and with this patch we initialize the `vcpkg` conditionally, in the `libgit` project's `PreBuildEvent`. To allow for parallel building of the projects, we therefore put `libgit` at the bottom of the project hierarchy. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Vcproj.pm: urlencode '<' and '>' when generating VC projects

2019-07-29T21:51:42Z

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano