Philip Oakley and Jeff Hostetler worked quite a bit on getting Git to
compile with MS Visual C again, and this patch series is the culmination of
those efforts. With these patches, it is as easy as

make MSVC=1

Note: the patches went through quite the number of iterations. For example,
for a long time we targeted Visual Studio 2015, and used NuGet packages for
the dependencies (such as OpenSSL, cURL, etc), while the current iteration
targets Visual Studio 2017 and uses vcpkg
[https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/vcpkg?view=vs-2017] for dependencies.
Hopefully I did not forget to remove any remnants of those previous
versions.

Please also note that this patch series is part 1 of 3 in a bigger story:
the next patch series will add support to build Git in Microsoft Visual
Studio, and the third patch series will add Continuous Testing by adding an
MSVC build and a corresponding parallelized test job to our Azure Pipeline.

Changes since v2:

 * Fixed the incorrect split-out of the "msvc: update Makefile to allow for
   spaces in the compiler path" patch: I had accidentally reverted that
   change in a later patch in the series.

Changes since v1:

 * The BASIC_CLFAGS typo was fixed.
 * Instead of sorting the output of stdout/stderr, the fixed test case in
   t0001 now greps for the tell-tales it wants to be present.
 * In addition to cache-tree.c's DEBUG constant, now also builtin/blame.c's
   is renamed.
 * Two changes were factored out of the patch titled "msvc: support building
   Git using MS Visual C++": the support for spaces in SANE_TOOL_PATH, and
   the support for the compile time flag to enable CrtDbg's detailed heap
   diagnostics.
 * A comment about the vcxproj target has been dropped; The corresponding
   change is slated for a future patch series.
 * A left-over "TODO" comment was replaced by stating the final decision
   that only Visual Studio 2015 or later are supported for now.
 * A left-over, commented-out SIGINT case label was removed, and an adjacent
   comment was moved so that its indentation no longer looks strange.

Jeff Hostetler (10):
  cache-tree/blame: avoid reusing the DEBUG constant
  msvc: mark a variable as non-const
  msvc: do not re-declare the timespec struct
  msvc: define ftello()
  msvc: fix detect_msys_tty()
  msvc: update Makefile to allow for spaces in the compiler path
  msvc: support building Git using MS Visual C++
  msvc: add a compile-time flag to allow detailed heap debugging
  msvc: do not pretend to support all signals
  msvc: ignore .dll and incremental compile output

Johannes Schindelin (7):
  mingw: fix a typo in the msysGit-specific section
  Mark .bat files as requiring CR/LF endings
  t0001 (mingw): do not expect a specific order of stdout/stderr
  obstack: fix compiler warning
  mingw: replace mingw_startup() hack
  msvc: fix dependencies of compat/msvc.c
  msvc: avoid debug assertion windows in Debug Mode

Philip Oakley (3):
  msvc: include sigset_t definition
  msvc: define O_ACCMODE
  msvc: add pragmas for common warnings

 .gitattributes                     |   1 +
 .gitignore                         |   5 +
 Makefile                           |  42 +++++++-
 builtin/blame.c                    |   6 +-
 cache-tree.c                       |  14 +--
 compat/mingw.c                     |  99 +++++++++++++----
 compat/mingw.h                     |  24 +++--
 compat/msvc.h                      |  10 ++
 compat/obstack.h                   |   2 +-
 compat/vcbuild/.gitignore          |   3 +
 compat/vcbuild/README              |  39 +++++++
 compat/vcbuild/find_vs_env.bat     | 168 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 compat/vcbuild/scripts/clink.pl    |  41 ++++++-
 compat/vcbuild/vcpkg_copy_dlls.bat |  39 +++++++
 compat/vcbuild/vcpkg_install.bat   |  80 ++++++++++++++
 compat/winansi.c                   |  13 +++
 config.mak.uname                   |  83 +++++++++++---
 git-compat-util.h                  |   9 ++
 t/t0001-init.sh                    |   4 +-
 19 files changed, 620 insertions(+), 62 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 compat/vcbuild/.gitignore
 create mode 100644 compat/vcbuild/find_vs_env.bat
 create mode 100644 compat/vcbuild/vcpkg_copy_dlls.bat
 create mode 100644 compat/vcbuild/vcpkg_install.bat

base-commit: b697d92f56511e804b8ba20ccbe7bdc85dc66810

Submitted-As: https://public-inbox.org/git/pull.149.v3.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com
In-Reply-To: https://public-inbox.org/git/pull.149.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com
In-Reply-To: https://public-inbox.org/git/pull.149.v2.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com