Re: Support for VC++ toolchain (was Re: Absolute paths generated by libtool.)

[Howard Chu]

Benoit Sigoure wrote:
> Quoting Benoit Sigoure <address@hidden>:
> > [SNIP, see 
> > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool/2006-11/msg00018.html]
>
> Hello folks,
> I think I finally succeeded: I can now build any UNIX program as long 
> as its
> code is portable on Windows with both mingw-gcc toolchain and MS VC++.

Wow, what a lot of effort, when you could have simply installed MSYS and 
the cccl shell script. I guess you would still need to intercept 
DOS-style commands like del and xcopy, but the MSYS shell takes care of 
command line arguments and paths, and cccl takes care of translating 
Unix cc options to switches that MSVC understands. With these I can use 
an unmodified libtool script to build most autoconf'd packages on Windows.

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