premake / premake/premake-core
Add Visual Basic support with externalproject
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Description
What problem will this solve?
Add support for .vbproj files made outside of Premake.
What might be a solution?
Accept "VB" or "VisualBasic" in the language command.
externalproject "VisualBasicProject"
language "VisualBasic"
What other alternatives have you already considered?
Manually add the project after generating the solution.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
The issue names no files or tests. Start by locating the externalproject language command and its handling of external project files, then compare the existing language values. Done means accepting VB or VisualBasic and generating solutions that include externally created .vbproj files.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- lua, visualbasic
- Domain
- build-system
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100