[Opensim-dev] .NET 4 Teething Problems

[Ai Austin]

At 11:00 18/11/2013, Zadark Portal wrote:
>Reference. For VS 2013
>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2013/07/24/msbuild-is-now-part-of-visual-studio.aspx


Given this information about how MSBuild is being repackaged... I am 
wondering if Visual Studio 2010 Express - or any VS/VC# Express 
version - really HAS to be installed to be able to build OpenSim from 
the GIT master source versions where only runprebuild.bat and 
compile.bat (which uses msbuild)?

If we never open a Visual Studio/C# solution file is the Visual 
Studio install required, or can a more minimal setup of a relevant 
.NET framework install, or the latest Microsoft Build Toools 2013 
with its inbuilt msbuild be used instead?

I don't use all this Microsoft development environment stuff, so I 
hope my question makes sense.  It just seems a pity to have to 
install masses or large development environment stuff on all our 
systems just to be able to compile OpenSim.  It makes it impractical 
on a Microsoft Surface Pro with its limited capacity SSD drive for 
example, something I have done before while travelling to test things 
while away from our main grid servers.