Re: autoconf + automake support for MSVC

[Stefano Lattarini]

On Saturday 03 September 2011, Peter Rosin wrote:

> Hi Stefano,

>

> Den 2011-09-03 09:41 skrev Stefano Lattarini:

> > On Saturday 03 September 2011, Peter Rosin wrote:

> >>

> >> [BIG SNIP]

> >>

> >> I don't think cccl is the future, I see it as the past. It's

> >> simply not needed when the needed bits are already in 'compile'.

> >>

> >> It's a bit sad to see all the effort going into writing private

> >> scripts wrapping cl into something that looks like gcc, when the

> >> effort could be spent making autotools just work instead.

> >>

> > For what concerns this: are you willing to re-submit your patch

> > series about AM_PROG_AR to automake-patches? I will try hard to

> > look into it, if you are willing to do the required testing and

> > to patiently explain to me the details I won't undertand (and

> > be warned that there will probably be many of them, since I'm a

> > total Windows noob).

> >

> > Oh, also, before doing that, could you please merge the 'maint'

> > branch into the 'msvc' branch? Or I can do that for you if you

> > prefer (but then you'll have to double-check that the merge has

> > been really successfull).

>

> There was that little disagreement over how win32 portability

> warnings should be handled. That should perhaps be resolved first?

>

My opinion today is: let those warnings be implied by `-Wall' and

`-Wportability', and introduce a new warnings category ("msvc", or

"win32", or "windows", or ... <your suggetion here>) so that a user

not interested in them can add `-Wno-msvc' to AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS and

live happily.

Regards,

Stefano