On 3/26/2020 5:37 PM, Csaba Raduly via Cygwin wrote:
Hi Mike,
On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 9:31 PM Mike Gran via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>
wrote:
Hi-
Is it possible use Cygwin to run an autotools 'configure' script but have
the compiler be MSVC?
I would be very surprised if this worked. 'configure' is likely to run the
compiler with unix-style flags (started with hyphens) rather than DOS-style
flags (started with forward slashes). cl.exe may accept only DOS-style
flags.
Also, MSVC won't be able to find Cygwin's include files, and even if it
did, most likely won't be able to compile them.
The whole thing sounds like a recipe for failure. What are you trying to
achieve?
All that said, I _have_ seen build processes organized to give MSVC
as an option ... and that in fact sometimes make it hard to do a Cygwin
build because they "want" to do a native Windows build!
However, this may have been more just a canned Makefile than a whole
./configure process ...
Eliot
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