Re: Do autotools support free Microsoft compiler?

[Braden McDaniel]

Bob Friesenhahn wrote:

> Microsoft has now made its optimizing C/C++ compilers for Windows
> available as a free download.  See
> "http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/vctoolkit2003/";.  Do GNU Autotools
> work with this compiler?

autoconf, basically. autoconf's check for whether it can use -g is 
busted, but the effect of this is just a benign warning from the 
compiler. (I have a patch for this that I submitted to autoconf-patches 
many months ago; but it was ignored.)

libtool, unfortunately, is quite broken. There is some bitrotted support 
for cl/lib. But as I understand it this was maimed as a side effect of 
improvements to gcc/win32 support. I have threatened in the past to fix 
this; unfortunately, I just haven't found the time.

Braden