bug#26484: feature request: add ICC support on Windows
From:
sav_ix
Subject:
bug#26484: feature request: add ICC support on Windows
Date:
Thu, 13 Apr 2017 18:01:59 +0300
Hello,
Currently ICC, like MSVC, offer free versions for Open Source development on Windows (https://software.intel.com/en-us/qualify-for-free-software/opensourcecontributor ). Thus a lot of Open Source tools, which use autotools build system (GMP/MPIR, MPFR, libiconv, etc.), could be built using free Intel Compiler, which offer a better performance (https://software.intel.com/en-us/c-compilers/ipsxe ).
Currently autotools doesn't provide ICC support "out of the box". But, fortunately, it provide such support for MSVC. And since ICC on Windows tries to emulate MSVC (by using same compiler keys, MSVC linker, etc.), it's pretty easy to adopt MSVC toolchain from 'configure' scriptfor this purpose.