[Qbs] Build from Visual Studio solution

[Jake Petroules]

I can understand the value of a tool to convert .sln to .qbs, which we may certainly provide in the future, but what's the point of "build on-the-fly from the solution file"? In that case why not simply run msbuild?

> On Feb 6, 2017, at 10:54 AM, webmaster <webmaster at macside.net> wrote:
> 
> Ok, so I'm asking for the quite opposite functionality:
> There is a solution file and I would like qbs to generate a qbs file or
> even better build on-the-fly from the solution file.
> 
> Best regards,
> Martin
> 
> Am 06.02.2017 um 18:49 schrieb Jake Petroules:
>> We added a Visual Studio generator in Qbs 1.7 which you can use to generate a Visual Studio solution that allows you to use the Visual Studio IDE to build a Qbs project. See the announcement blog post for more details: http://blog.qt.io/blog/2017/01/31/qbs-1-7-released/ or the `qbs generate` subcommand.
>> 
>>> On Feb 3, 2017, at 12:08 PM, webmaster <webmaster at macside.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> is there are any way to build a project from a visual studio solution
>>> file (sln)?
>>> 
>>> Best regards,
>>> Martin
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