Re: Don't see any output to stdout from commands

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2006 10:34:46 +0200
> From: Krzysztof Nosek <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> of course calling cl.exe, link.exe and all the stuff directly _is_ an option.
> But, sometimes, when you use such tool as Visual Studio, you want to have
> projects (.vcproj) and solution files (.sln) configured so that you can
> build-on-request during development from inside the VS's IDE (or your boss
> wants, or your fellow developer does, ...).
> 
> So, these VS files contain (mostly) all information concerning build issues of
> given solution. But it's only devenv who knows how to deal with it.

Okay, but then why invoke devenv from Make?

> BTW, Previous versions of VS used to have feature of generating makefile
> (nmakish one) given solution file. But that feature disappeared many years 
> ago...

Really?  I use VS 6 sometimes, and the feature is still there.  What
version dropped it?