Re: Improve Autoconf MSVC support

[Antonin Décimo]

Hi Nick,
Thank you for your reply!

> I guess you are not using Automake, because both of these problems
> should be solved automatically by Automake.  Automake replaces $CC
> with invocations through a wrapper script that knows how to translate
> -l and -o options into MSVC equivalents (such as -Fo/-Fe).
>
> If you don't want to use Automake I suggest at least using this
> wrapper script in your project.

I'm not using Automake but I'll consider it. Were you referring to cccl?
https://github.com/swig/cccl
I'll try it, thanks.

> >   MSVC doesn't have a version flag but will report its version if
> >   called directly.
>
> I don't understand why this is important.

It's not important, but reading the config.log file, I see that
configure is trying multiple version flags one after the other, that
MSVC doesn't recognize. Maybe I just misunderstood and configure is
trying to tell whether the compiler executable runs?

-- Antonin