Change: Always build baseset metadata, instead of including it in the repo.

[PeterN]

Baseset metadata files are usually out of date as they are not updated when translations are changed.

This also adds a script and project files to generate these files within MSVC.

[glx22]

Where is openttd_vs140.sln ?

[PeterN]

Missed that. Have added it now, but haven't got a version that'll open it.

[PeterN]

Hmm, thinking about it, it probably needs to depend on all the language files, not just english.txt. Can't see how to do that, replacing english.txt with *.txt doesn't work at least!

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[glx22]

Tried VS2015, works

[nielsmh]

Hmm, thinking about it, it probably needs to depend on all the language files, not just english.txt. Can't see how to do that, replacing english.txt with *.txt doesn't work at least!

I think you'd need, at least for MSBuild, a dummy-output generated from all the language inputs, and then you can depend other things on that dummy-output.
If it was within the same MSBuild project there would be better solutions, but cross-project having a dummy-file generated is probably the simplest.

[PeterN]

Latest push adds code to build a list of language files and include it in the dependences. Seems to work for me with MSVC 2017.

[glx22]

Seems to work with MSVC 2015 and MSYS2

[PeterN]

I guess the final question now is... is this change a good thing to do? Seeing as eints likely doesn't have the build environment to update these files, this seems the best way to me.

[nielsmh]

Yeah, IMO this is good. It's less prebuilt files to host in the repository. If it can reasonably be generated during build it should.