Re: autoconf and cl.exe

[Braden McDaniel]

"Earnie Boyd" <address@hidden> wrote in message
news:address@hidden
> Braden McDaniel wrote:
> >
> >>I know of no reason why you
> >>shouldn't be able to use cl with it.  Let's discuss on
> >>address@hidden what your difficulties are.
> >
> >
> > Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see that MSYS provides a bridge
for
> > the disconnect between autoconf's macros and cl. Is there a specific
piece
> > of MSYS I should be looking for?
> >
>
> It provides a Minimal SYStem to execute configure and make.  To use cl
> as your compiler then just ``CC=cl CXX=cl configure ... && make''.  If
> what you're after is for autoconf to look for cl as a possible compiler
> that's another matter; but one that could be worked through on the
> mingw-users list.

autoconf already does that; that's not the problem. The problem is getting a
macro like AC_CHECK_LIB to work when cl is the compiler.

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Braden McDaniel <address@hidden>
Software Engineer, Object Sciences Corporation