Re: MSVC status

[Christopher Hulbert]

On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Peter Rosin <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Christopher Hulbert asked for some MSVC status in a private message,
> but I figured more people might be interested. So, I'm posting a
> testsuite log from libtool master.
>
> It was configured with:
>
> ../configure \
> CC="/c/cygwin/home/peda/automake/git/automake/lib/compile cl" CFLAGS="-MD
> -Zi -EHsc" \
> CXX="/c/cygwin/home/peda/automake/git/automake/lib/compile cl" CXXFLAGS="-MD
> -Zi -EHsc" \
> LD=link NM="dumpbin -symbols" STRIP=: \
> AR="/c/cygwin/home/peda/automake/git/automake/lib/archive lib" RANLIB=:
> F77=no FC=no GCJ=no
>
> Don't be fooled by /c/cygwin in the above paths, or in the log for that
> matter. This was all using MSYS/MSVC. /c/cygwin is just where the files
> live on my system.
>
> I do not have automake installed in my MSYS environment, so there are
> a fair number of skips caused by that. I also did not run the old
> testsuite as it has to many variables that are not imported correctly
> from dlls.
>
> The compile script above is from the master branch of automake, and
> the archive script is from this pending automake patch:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg02374.html
>
> (Note that the final name of the latter script might not be 'archive')
>
> Further, there are two things left todo, that were done in the old
> pr-msvc-support branch that I have identified so far.
>
> 1. libtool needs to support archivers with @FILE support, since
> libtool currently falls back to piecewise linking for long
> command lines. MSVC doesn't support piecewise linking. I have a
> patch sitting on disk that I fiddle with from time to time, expect
> it to appear on a list near you when the above pending automake
> patch is commited, if not sooner.
>
> 2. Support for other C++ file extensions, MSVC only handles .cpp
> files as C++ code without feeding it a hint. But this change is
> best done in the compile script so it's a thing for automake...
>
> Anyway, I have attached a full testsuite log.

Attached are my logs. I am building from cygwin. I have not yet looked
into any of the failures. I believe your logs had 28 failures with 22
expected. I don't think all of our failures line up though. Note that
I ran it once without setting --host (testsuite.log.bz2), and once
setting --host=i686-pc-mingw32 (testsuite_cross.log.bz2).

Chris

>
> Cheers,
> Peter
>

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