Re: Wrapper around MSVC cl.exe for autoconf.

Norbert,

I was thinking of gcc-wrapper more as a libreoffice-internal tool like
concat-deps than a external cygwin package.

The Microsoft linker is supported by autoconf so it is handled in
ExternalProject.mk.

Thanks,

Peter



On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Norbert Thiebaud <nthiebaud@gmail.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 4:37 PM, Peter Foley <pefoley2@verizon.net> wrote:
> > I've written a wrapper around MSVC cl.exe for autoconf (see
> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Gsoc/Ideas#Gcc_like_wrapper_for_MSC_on_cygwin_and_autotools_compatibility
> ).
> > The goal of the wrapper is to remove all the custom MSVC logic from the
> > ExternalProject makefiles and let the packages just use autoconf.
> >
> > I've uploaded the gcc-wrapper patch to gerrit as well as two example
> > implementations.
> >
> > The code was rather quickly hacked together so it may still be buggy.
> >
> > Is this something that should be integrated into libreoffice?
>
> The wrapper itself, probably not, otherwise you get the usual
> bootstrap problem...
> but a solution would be to make it avaiable as an external pre-req
> like the dozen that Windows already has...
> Ideally I suppose, in a cygwin-like package (rpm?) that one could
> install in cygwin... just like we already request for 2 dozen of
> packages to be installed in cygwin to be able to build...
>
> Norbert
>
> PS: make sure that the wrapper is 'versionable', since I suspect that
> some behaviors will depend on the underlying version of the MS
> compiler...
> PS2: how do you deal with the 'linker' aspect of things ?