Re: autoconf and cl.exe

[Braden McDaniel]

"Earnie Boyd" <address@hidden> wrote in message
news:address@hidden
> Braden McDaniel wrote:
> >
> > If sh is not available, presumably there would be substantial difficulty
in
> > using autoconf/configure at all.
> >
> > In practice, I think there are very few projects using cl with autoconf.
But
> > I want to use autotools, and building with cl is a requirement for the
> > project I'm working on. So hopefully I can come up with a general
solution
> > to the problem.
> >
>
> Have you looked at MSYS from www.mingw.org?

I have now.

> I know of no reason why you
> shouldn't be able to use cl with it.  Let's discuss on
> address@hidden what your difficulties are.

Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see that MSYS provides a bridge for
the disconnect between autoconf's macros and cl. Is there a specific piece
of MSYS I should be looking for?

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Braden McDaniel <address@hidden>
Software Engineer, Object Sciences Corporation