Re: msvs support

[Peter Ekberg]

On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 10:21:46AM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Hi Peter,
> 
> * Peter Ekberg wrote on Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 09:15:11PM CET:
> > I think I remember Ralf saying something about a list of tests that
> > are needed in order for the patch to be commitable. Is this something
> > I can do, or is a second opinion required/desireable here? Ralf,
> > can you please provide that list?
> 
> Sure, I can try.  The patch needs some cleanup.  I'll reply on
> libtool-patches with inline comments about the patch.

Thanks very much for this, I'm sure I could have picked up at least
some of your comments in the archives, but it's very nice to have them
collected. There's also new stuff in there that I don't recognize.

Now I have something concrete to chew on...

> Then the patch needs testing with
> - MSVC (cl) on MinGW
> - MSVC (cccl) on MinGW
> - gcc on MinGW
> - gcc on Cygwin
> 
> There should not be any regressions (except maybe the ones that stem
>  from not applying the testsuite changes).
> 
> BTW, there is at least one largish software package that already uses
> your patch to provide its MSVC port: with cccl and an in-tree libltdl.
> So I don't expect too many issues.

Interesting, what software package is that? Just curious...

> > I have kept quiet (and haven't worked on the patch either for that
> > matter) in order to not destabilize the pending release, but there's
> > been lots of water under the bridges...
> 
> Oh well.

:-)

> > I believe the patch does not touch any non-win32 stuff and things
> > still work for MinGW and Cygwin as far as I can tell. The only
> > possible trouble is that the cccl support might be broken by the
> > patch (but I don't know if cccl in fact works at the moment).
> 
> It should not be broken, though: it's very useful.

Yes, I can see its usefulness.

Cheers,
Peter