Re: cl.exe and system types

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Mon, 20 Aug 2018, Sébastien Hinderer wrote:
> Bob Friesenhahn (2018/08/20 10:44 -0500):
> > I don't know that MSVC is supported by Autotools.  It would be nice if it
> > was.  Have you seen a statement that this is supported?
>
> Well, here is what AC_PROG_CC outputs when running
> $ ./configure CC=cl
> checking for i686-pc-windows-gcc... cl
> checking whether the C compiler works... yes
> checking for C compiler default output file name... conftest.exe
> checking for suffix of executables... .exe
> checking whether we are cross compiling... no
> checking for suffix of object files... obj
> checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... no
> checking whether cl accepts -g... yes
> checking for cl option to accept ISO C89... none needed
> checking how to run the C preprocessor... cl -E
>
> From that, I inferred that cl is supported. Am I wrong here?

I don't know.  The pace of Visual Studio development is much faster 
than Autotools development in recent years.  It is possible that MSVC 
has done something to make things easier.

Are you using Cygwin for your shell environment?

Bob
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