Building for VS2012 and VS2013

[justinstenning]

Just to make it easier, here are the build scripts for VS2012 and VS2013

[assarbad]

I have a little script over on Bitbucket which will make your NT script a little more concise. And as a side-effect it lets you simply choose the VS version you want, and whether you want the amd64 toolchain or so and then does the right thing by looking up the correct paths to the VS versions in the registry:

• https://bitbucket.org/assarbad/scripts/raw/tip/setvcvars.cmd

Feel free to use. It's in the public domain (CC0) and if that isn't enough, I can make it available under another permissive license like MIT/BSD/zlib license.

[justinstenning]

Looks like a good option for replacing the buildVS20xx.bat file with a single one. I think we still need the duplicate solution and project files however.

Thanks for pointing the script out, I may try to use that for some of my other projects.

[assarbad]

I've had good experiences with premake4. It certainly is limited and you may hit those limits in complex scenarios, but this project looks simple enough. I'll see whether I can write up a quick one. And yes, you'll still have to have the project to build, but IIRC VS2008 could use VS2005 projects and solutions and VS2012 and 2013 could use those from 2010. Basically everything starting with VS2010 is MSBuild based (which is another option that would work across VS versions, using a single project).