PoC: Use MSVC without project files

[t-mat]

MSVC project files (.sln and friends) have been our burden. Because their format, structure and convention have been (will be) changed randomly.

To ease this problem, I made a simple batch script which invokes cl.exe (MSVC compiler/linker driver) and rc.exe directly.

It's cumbersome, but its core is the following one line:

cl.exe %COMPILER_OPTIONS% %SRCS% /link %LINKER_OPTIONS% lz4.res

It passes compiler options, source files, linker options and resource file.

[t-mat]

gist

Procedure:

cmd.exe
cd /d "%USERPROFILE%\Documents"
md lz4-issue-1386
cd lz4-issue-1386
git clone https://github.com/lz4/lz4.git
cd lz4

md build\visual_studio\lz4
cd build\visual_studio\lz4

copy ..\..\VS2022\lz4\lz4.rc .

curl -JOL https://gist.githubusercontent.com/t-mat/de819af37d3dd399147a75f9af1b034e/raw/build-vs2022.cmd
type build-vs2022.cmd | find "" /V > build-vs2022.cmd.bat
.\build-vs2022.cmd

.\lz4.exe --version

[Cyan4973]

Yes, this is a good idea.