User:Gszorc/Build System Experimentation

The Mozilla build system, specifically all the makefiles and the things they do, is scary. I have a personal project (which will inevitably bleed into bugs and patches) to improve it any way I can.

Impetus

User:ally and I were opining how developing mozilla-central on Windows isn't very Windows-y. Specifically, there is no official Visual Studio story. Windows developers love Visual Studio and it is really unfortunate we can't give them what they love. So, all the work on this page started as a way to explore generating Visual Studio project files automatically with the goal of eventually bundling them in the source tree (or at least providing a way for them to be generated automatically on checkout).