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 <nthieb...@gmail.com>wrote: > 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 ? >
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