• Version: All
• Platform: Windows
• Subsystem: build

Up till now we have been using two mechanism to build node, on windows vcbuild.bat that triggers configure and then msbuild. And on all other platforms a direct call to configure and then an explicit call to make. Having two mechanisms, leads to divergence, as often bugs-fixes/improvements are done on one and not the other. I wish we could eliminate this disparity by using a tool that works on both platforms.
A few proposed solutions:

1. build using ninja as chromium and V8 does (generate .ninja files with GYP)
2. build using cmake which is now MSVS supported (generate CMakeLists.txt files with GYP)
3. investigation build with make on Windows