Re: Tools under Windows

[Howard Chu]

Keith MARSHALL wrote:
> BRM wrote:
> > I´ve been playing around with it a bit today, mostly
> > MSYS, and have thus far only had one issue with it -
> > cl won´t compile the program because of bad parameters
> > being passed to it (since MSYS uses // instead of /).
> > (Not sure if that´s an issue for you guys, mingw-msys,
> > or the cccl guy; advice appreciated.)
>
> Does MSVC not allow you to use `-' rather than `/' as the
> switch leader?

Yes, MSVC accepts '-'. Generally Makefiles that were written for Windows 
 use slashes, but it's best to convert everything to dashes. I went 
through this exercise for the Mozilla codebase several months ago...

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