On Fri, Aug 16, 2024 at 04:15:27PM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote: > Gavin Smith wrote: > > Also, if I delete build-aux/ar-lib nothing appears to regenerate it. > > Yes, I made the same experience. 'ar-lib' needs to be imported explicitly. > > > Perhaps it is not needed. > > It is needed for building with the MSVC compiler. Cf. > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gettext.git;a=blob_plain;f=INSTALL.windows >
The last I heard was that building with MSVC did not work. You posted fixes (adding gnulib modules) in October last year: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2023-10/msg00081.html However, we doubted that it was worth supporting MSVC. https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2023-10/msg00084.html https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2023-10/msg00085.html
