[Scummvm-devel] [Scummvm-cvs-logs] SF.net SVN: scummvm:[42287] scummvm/trunk

[Pawel Kolodziejski]

On 2009-07-09, at 17:37, Willem Jan Palenstijn wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 05:23:24PM +0200, Max Horn wrote:
>>>> Is that *really* necessary? I.e., is MSVC not able to handle  
>>>> multiple
>>>> source files with the same name in a single project in the year
>>>> 2009 ?
>>>> Other compilers / deve environments could cope with that 15 years
>>>> ago... Surely MSVC can do it now?
>>>
>>> It supports, it rename internally files.
>>> However it's not beautiful.
>>> Really gcc can output two the same filenames in the same dir ?
>>
>> Of course neither GCC nor any other program can store two files with
>> the same name in the same dir. But here we are talking about files
>> with the same name in *different* dirs...
>
> By default, MSVC stores all object files in the same intermediate
> directory. It's possible to tell it to use a different-than- 
> default .obj
> filename for a file, though. It might also be possible to tell it to
> build a tree in the intermediate directory, but I'd have to look that
> up.

I thought the same but never tried as never have that strong reason.
As it's more complicate build structure I guess.

>
> With the make-based system, we store the .o files in the same  
> directory
> as the source file. (Or in the same tree with a different root.)
>
> -Willem Jan
>