Re: cl.exe and system types

2018-08-23 Thread Sébastien Hinderer
Dear Peter, Many thanks for all the helpful informationn you provide! I don't think we will be able to introduce automake and libtool at this stage (there are even developers in the community who think we should replace make by a language-specific build system), but it is still very useful to kno

Re: cl.exe and system types

2018-08-23 Thread Sébastien Hinderer
Dear Nick, Nick Bowler (2018/08/21 10:32 -0400): > Hi Sébastien, > > On 2018-08-21, Sébastien Hinderer wrote: > > What I do not understand, though, is why it is necessary to specify > > --build. I know the manual says that when one specifies --host then one > > has to specify --build, too, for h

Re: cl.exe and system types

2018-08-23 Thread Earnie
On 8/23/2018 7:14 AM, Sébastien Hinderer wrote: > > One question I still have is about the possible values for the arguments > to --build & co. Is there a specification or an exhaustive list > somewhere? I know the general syntax but I'd like to figure out what > would be the best values for our W

Re: cl.exe and system types

2018-08-23 Thread Keith Marshall
On 23/08/18 18:08, Earnie wrote: > If you're using MSVC, there is no crosstool chain of software so you > specify a fictitious --host and --build to be the same such as > {i686,x86_64}-pc-msvc and point the environment variables to the > binaries. But the OP seems to want to use AC_CANONICAL_*. I