Re: MSVC Support

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

Ralf Wildenhues wrote:

> Hi Brendon,
> 
> * Brendon Costa wrote on Fri, May 19, 2006 at 09:29:10AM CEST:
> >
> >     I am not sure if this information will be helpful or not, but in
> > order to make compiling with MSVC a bit more simple (I have this
> > project going without libtool) I have created some wrappers similar to
> > the one found at cccl.sourceforge.net

I wasn't aware of that tool. It has a few deficiencies, but I'm
sure these could all be overcome.

> Surely that is very helpful.  Is there a reason you're not contributing
> them to cccl though?

It seems the original author hasn't touched the program since 2001.
I've sent him email offering to take it over and maintain/ improve
it.

> If OTOH your wrappers are good enough to wrap all libtool-needed
> functionality in a way such that it looks like GCC, well, then Libtool
> may just work out of the box with it.  :-)

We'll see :-).

Erik
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