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Seems most open source projects in C/C++ only provide the source code,i.e. nginx
Is this a convention that anyone interested in joining the developing team should figure out the .sln/.project files himself to qualify??
most open source projects are coming from the linux side of computing. thus, they are mainly using unix style build tools, as well as open source compilers.
the main build tool is
make, which uses amakefileto know how to build a project. on Windows, the main open source compiler isMinGWwhich is a win32 port ofgcc. the use of those tools allows to keep a maximum of common things between unix and windows.note that .sln files are specific to microsoft compilers which are not free to use (and are rather costly), they are not portable and so are not suitable for multi-platform programming.