On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 4:37 PM, Peter Foley <pefol...@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 ? _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
