Re: MSYS+MSVC for libtool branch-2-0

[Howard Chu]

Peter Ekberg wrote:

> Yes, all reasonable.
>
>
> > Which MSVC version do you use?  By looking at whatever rough
>
>
> cl outputs:
> Microsoft (R) 32-bit C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 12.00.8168 for
> 80x86
> Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1984-1998. All rights reserved.
>
> The one that came with Visual Studio 6. Old, I know...
>
>
> > support there is (was once installed) in Libtool, that pertains to an
> > old version.  Unfortunately, I don't have access to such an 
> > old version.
> > If we can get hold of it, though, I think we should not kill 
> > its support
> > by changing the libtool.m4 settings (unless they are broken, that is).
>
>
> Well, since the stuff seemed broken anyway I figured it was time
> to start fresh.
>
> One problem that made me think it was broken was that "lib /OUT..."
> seemed to be a real problem, I had to change it to "lib -OUT..." to
> not confuse libtool into thinking that the /OUT... thing was a path.
> Does anybody even know what is supposed to work? I.e. what
> functionallity should be kept intact?

I just spent a few days last week converting the Mozilla source tree to 
build with MSYS. You definitely want all command-line switches to use 
dash instead of slash. (And all the Windows utilities already accept 
this, so it's not a problem.)

> > > I configure the libtoolized project with
> > >
> > > .../configure CC="cl -MD" LDFLAGS=-L/msvc/lib
> > >
> > > Where MSYS has a mount so that /msvc points to the MSVC folder
> > > (typically "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98"
> > > or something similar)
> >
> > Yeah, it might be necessary to work around all the `white 
> > space in path' issues as well...

Yes. But my VCVARS32.BAT file uses DOS-compatible paths (E.g. 
C:\PROGRA~1\MICROSO~4) so there's no whitespace in my paths. (And I call 
that batch file from the MSYS batch file so that MSVC is setup in my 
MSYS environment. Likewise for Cygwin.)

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