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Re: [PATCH 0/2] Modernize header checks
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Russ Allbery |
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Re: [PATCH 0/2] Modernize header checks |
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Fri, 31 May 2013 23:09:08 -0700 |
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Peter Rosin <address@hidden> writes:
> On 2013-06-01 00:06, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> Autoconf doesn't work with MSVC directly so far as I know. All of the
>> packages I have that are ported to MSVC have a separate hand-written
>> config.h that's used for MSVC builds, and in that file one simply
>> doesn't define HAVE_STRINGS_H.
> What do you mean directly? MSYS can drive a build using MSVC as toolchain
> (instead of MinGW) just fine. I do it all the time.
I meant in terms of being able to probe directly for a header file using
the standard configure script, so I may be wrong. You can currently get
"checking for strings.h... not found" on Windows systems from the regular
configure script?
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Russ Allbery (address@hidden) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>