1701364 - Make the Visual Studio backend useful for cross-compiles

Status: NEW

(Developer Infrastructure :: Developer Environment Integration, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Jonathan Watt [:jwatt]]

Right now you can invoke mach build-backend -b VisualStudio on Linux, but it will generate a useless Visual Studio solution since all the paths are Linux paths. I'd like to be able to generate the solution in Linux for use in a Windows virtual machine.

Comment 1

[Jonathan Watt [:jwatt]]

Attachment: Bug 1701364. Make the Visual Studio backend useful for cross-compiles. r=glandium

This makes it possible to invoke the Visual Studio build backend to create the
Visual Studio solution on Linux in a directory that is shared with Windows. The
following environment variables must be set:

SHAREDDIRHOST: Absolute path of the shared directory on Linux
SHAREDDIRGUEST: Absolute path of the shared directory on the Windows side

The Visual Studio build backend will then use those variables to fix up the
paths that are written in the solution files so that the solution will work
when run in the Windows VM.