The 2025 Roadmap of the LVGL Visual Studio repository

[MouriNaruto]

I think I should back to the typical contributions for LVGL Visual Studio repository again after I proceed several personal projects. Also, LVGL mainline's new UEFI support makes me excited.

Here is the list I will try my best to finish in 2025:

• Add custom MSBuild task for synchronizing the Visual Studio project automatically after updating the LVGL submodule. (For resolving the issue in LVGL File Paths Change Could Trigger Dependant Projects to Update lvgl#7412)
  • Visual Studio project configuration synchronization support.
  • Windows dynamic library binary export definition file synchronization support.
  • lv_conf.h synchronization support. (I need to do some researches for that.)
• Visual Studio UEFI project example.
  • Prepare the lightweight UEFI specification headers. (Ready, read https://github.com/ProjectMile/Mile.Uefi for the header definitions.)
• Visual Studio Hyper-V Generation 2 Virtual Machines bare-metal project example. (I planned for that since 2023.)
  • Prepare the Hyper-V guest interface headers. (Ready, read https://github.com/ProjectMile/Mile.HyperV for the header definitions.)
  • Prepare the lightweight UEFI specification headers because Hyper-V Generation 2 Virtual Machines only provide the 64-Bit UEFI Class 3 firmware. (Ready, read https://github.com/ProjectMile/Mile.Uefi for the header definitions.)
  • Write the VMBus driver for LVGL and hope to make it merged in the mainline.
• Improve the documents for repository. (Current documents for this repository is not friendly.)
  • Add more documents to explain what and why of some issues.
• Provide LVGL Gallery tool for exploring the demos and examples under Windows.

Kenji Mouri

[MouriNaruto]

I have made a document in https://github.com/lvgl/lv_port_pc_visual_studio/blob/master/Documents/DefaultLvglConfigurations.md, which can help me write the lv_conf.h synchronization MSBuild task for that in the future.

Kenji Mouri

[kisvegabor]

Hey,

happy that you are back again!

Add custom MSBuild task for synchronizing the Visual Studio project automatically after updating the LVGL submodule. (For resolving the issue in lvgl/lvgl#7412)

It's a very important one. If it'd work automatically (just like in Eclipse or VSCode) I could recommend this projects for more users.

lv_conf.h synchronization support. (I need to do some researches for that.)

I suggest looking into this. It can generate lv_conf.h from lv_conf.defaults (like this)

[MouriNaruto]

@kisvegabor

I suggest looking into this. It can generate lv_conf.h from lv_conf.defaults (like this)

I tried to make a lv_conf.defaults compatible generator for workaround that.

Kenji Mouri

[vwheeler63]

• Add custom MSBuild task for synchronizing the Visual Studio project automatically after updating the LVGL submodule.

I like this approach, because in the worst case, it would generate an identical .vcxproj file and result in no change.

[stale]

This issue or pull request has been automatically marked as stale because it has not had recent activity. It will be closed if no further activity occurs. Thank you for your contributions.

[vwheeler63]

Not stale.

[MouriNaruto]

@vwheeler63

Here is some progress: Parse the lv_conf.h and lv_conf_template.h and find modified options. It will be much better than only use default option list file.

Kenji Mouri