[osg-submissions] DLL placement on Windows

[Brede Johansen]

Hi J-S,

> Making a setup.exe each time SVN is updated doesn't make sense. For a
> full release, sure, and I think Mike Weiblen does that now. If you
> want more cutting-edge you'll probably need to be more low-level than
> that, and that's where the INSTALL project in the solution file comes
> in.

My point is that things like BUILD_ALL and INSTALL is not a problem
for the *nix crowd. A developer used to VisualStudio would probably
curse someone and look elsewhere for other alternatives.  OSG would
probably attract more new developers if the VisualStudio project files
where ready made so they didn't have to install cmake then change a
lot of settings before they got started.


> > From time to time I'm not
> > even able to step through the code while debugging (please but the
> > .dll and .pdb files in the same folder).
>
> I agree, that should be changed, and it's just a tweak to the CMake
> files I think (copy the .pdb to the same place as the .dll on INSTALL).

Noooo!  It should be put directly in the same folder (bin) when you
build a project. Please don't make us have to use the INSTALL.  In
fact make creation of BUILD_ALL and INSTALL projects optional in
cmake.

Just my 2 cents on the subject.

Regards,
Brede