Re: autoconf + automake support for MSVC

[Bruno Haible]

Peter Rosin wrote:
> > When configure.ac does not contain then AM_PROG_CC_C_O macro,
> > what do you do? Add it manually? ...
> 
> In that case, as stated above, you can just use compile/ar-lib as you'd
> use cccl, the macros only trigger the use of the scripts when they are
> needed (and the inclusion of the scripts in the package). If you know
> that you need them it's not wrong to point to them from the start (as I
> did for AR in above example configure invocation).

Thanks for this advice. I am starting to build gnulib testdirs with

$ ./configure --host=i586-pc-winnt --prefix=/usr/local/msvc \
              CC="$HOME/msvc/compile cl -nologo" \
              CFLAGS="-MD" \
              CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/msvc/include" \
              LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/msvc/lib" \
              LD="link" \
              NM="dumpbin -symbols" \
              STRIP=":" \
              AR="$HOME/msvc/ar-lib lib" \
              RANLIB=":" \

and at least configure runs fine and gives reasonable results. (Here
$HOME/msvc/compile and $HOME/msvc/ar-lib are taken from the tip of the
msvc branch in Automake.)

> Libtool 2.4 should do

How is that possible? Libtool contains special code for the platforms
  cygwin*
  mingw*
  cegcc*
  pw32*
  interix*
but none for
  winnt*
nor for
  windows*

I think the $host_os value winnt should be treated similarly to mingw32
or pw32, no?

Bruno
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