Subject: Re: Removing non-CMake windows support (was Re: problems building under Windows)

Re: Removing non-CMake windows support (was Re: problems building under Windows)

From: Jan Ehrhardt <phpdev_at_ehrhardt.nl>
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2015 11:32:58 +0100

Alexander Lamaison in gmane.network.ssh.libssh2.devel (Sun, 20 Dec 2015
21:26:28 +0000):
>I would like people's opinions on deleting the non-CMake windows support
>files.
>
>We regularly get questions from people who see the windows projects in the
>source and (quite reasonably) assume they are the place to go to build
>libssh2 on Windows. But, as we know, they don't work very well. That's why
>we added CMake build support.

The VC-projects are used for compiling libssh2 as a dependency for PHP 5
and PHP 7: https://github.com/winlibs/libssh2

I would not advice to remove them.

-- 
Jan
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