Re: stdint generation

[Benoit SIGOURE]

On Oct 15, 2007, at 10:28 PM, Bruno Haible wrote:

> Sam Steingold wrote:
> > >   gnulib-tool --import --source-base=src/gllib --m4-base=src/glm4 \
> > >                        --aux-dir=src/build-aux --no-changelog \
> > >                        stdint stdbool ...
> > > This will create a Makefile.am in src/gllib; therefore get  
> > > familiar with
> > > automake, and recurse from src into src/gllib before building src  
> > > itself.
> >
> > how will automake play with your makemake?
> > I will need to pre-generate woe32 Makefiles, right?
>
> Ah, right, these old msvc/nmake Makefiles. automake does not  
> support them.
> Therefore you need to decide: Either drop the support for msvc/ 
> nmake (and
> rely on mingw and gcc for building the Woe32 port). Or don't use  
> automake,
> and translate the gnulib-tool generated Makefile.am manually to a  
> Makefile.in
> and Makefile.msvc or to a piece of makemake.
>
> For GNU gettext and GNU libiconv, I got rid of the Makefile.msvc,  
> Makefile.os2,
> Makefile.vms, at the same time when I started using gnulib-tool.

I'm personally building libraries that are ported to MSVC (for ABI  
reasons) but I use automake (autoconf/libtool) nevertheless.  I  
simply wrapped the MSVC toolchain with shell scripts that are first  
in my PATH so I can invoke them from Cygwin (or MSYS).  The wrappers  
simply properly rewrite the arguments (MSYS does this already) and  
setup proper environment variables (vcvars32.bat) before invoking the  
actual tool.  In order for MSVC to play well with the autotools, I  
extended a wrapper script around cl.exe/link.exe (cccl [1]) so that  
it sort of looks like GCC.

This way I can build almost any UNIXy project with MSVC (as long as  
the code compiles -- the point is, the build system doesn't get in my  
way).  I built many things this way, ranging from Qt to Boost (even  
though these two specific ones gave me a hard time because of  
their ... exotic build systems, to say the least).

Oh, and I forgot to mention, you need to patch GNU Make 3.81 (until  
3.82 is out):
  wget http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/make/make-3.81.tar.gz
  tar xfz make-3.81.tar.gz
  cd make-3.81
  wget http://www.tsunanet.net/~tsuna/make-3.81-cygwin.patch
  wget http://www.tsunanet.net/~tsuna/make-3.81- 
cygwin_MAKE_expansion.patch
  PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin ./configure
  patch -p1 <make-3.81-cygwin.patch
  patch -p0 <make-3.81-cygwin_MAKE_expansion.patch
  PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin make
  PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin make install

It takes a little bit of time to setup the whole thing properly, but  
once done it's really convenient because you (almost) no longer have  
to worry about the fact that you have to compile with MSVC.

Cheers,


[1] https://www.tsunanet.net/~tsuna/cccl

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Benoit Sigoure aka Tsuna
EPITA Research and Development Laboratory

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