Re: Cross-compiler setup with autoconf and M$ CL

[Earnie Boyd]

Have you ever review MinGW and MSYS?

See: http://www.mingw.org/ for more information.

Earnie.

Keve Müller wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> Thanks for the _fast_ help.
> With your pointers I've tracked down the problem to the following.
> 
> CC=cl ./configure --host=windows32
> 
> fails, because config.guess tries to canonicalize the _build_ environment
> by compiling a small code that includes <features.h> which is unavailable
> with the M$ compiler.
> 
> CC=cl ./configure --build=windows32 --host=windows32
> 
> works fine, as nothing needs to be guessed by compilation.
> 
> Autoconf brilliantly sets up all the other stuff, like obj/exe suffixes,
> etc.
> 
> As in my setup the configure script is called from another build
> environment (Ant), I've decided to set CFLAGS, etc from within the
> configure script.
> 
> The rather preliminary work can be inspected at SourceForge. The project's
> name is jxUtil. The C stuff is under jxUtil/src/c
> 
> Thanks again for your support!
> 
> Keve