Wildcards are not allowed in toplevel ItemGroups in vcxproj; they must
be generated by targets.
We mostly use wildcards for pulling in PRI files that are dumped on disk
by the translation tool. We don't want to check those in, so we can't
expand references to them.
To that end, I've introduced a new target that will take a list of
folders containing resw files and expand wildcards under them.
All[1] other wildcards have been moved into their respective targets
_or_ simply expanded.
[1]: Nothing has complained about the resource wildcards in
CascadiaResources.build.items, so I haven't exploded it yet.
Fixes#6214.
This change is necessary as the dep/ folder is not synced into the
Windows source tree.
I've also added a build rule producing a lib for {fmt}.
This will be required for our next OS ingestion.
We received a request from our localization team to switch from
printf-style format strings (%s, %u) to format strings with positional
argument support. I've been hoping for a long time to take a dependency
on C++20's std::format, but we're just not somewhere we can do that.
Enter fmt. fmt is _exactly_ the library we need.
Minor comparison:
std::wstring_view world = /* ... */;
auto str{ wil::str_printf<std::wstring>(L"hello %.*s",
gsl::narrow_cast<size_t>(world.size()),
world.data()) };
---
auto str{ fmt::format(L"hello {0}", world) };
If you really want to use the print specifiers:
auto str{ fmt::printf(L"hello %s", world) };
It's got optional compile-time checking for format strings and is
MIT-licensed. Eventually, we should be able to replace fmt:: with std::
and end up pretty much where we left off.
What more could you ask for?
