autotools support for msvc (was: useful bug reports)

2005-11-17 Thread Rob Byrne
Hi Ralf, Unfortunately, I haven't gotten around to final testing and applying all of his patches. I can't promise when I'll be able to do that, but I certainly would like to see it applied; all I definitely want to avoid is any regressions for other systems (non-MSVC w32, or non-w32). Nobody

autotools support for msvc (was: useful bug reports)

2005-11-16 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Harald, * Harald Dunkel wrote on Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 09:05:47AM CET: > > There might be yet another problem with supporting msvc: Bill's > libraries are not built by 'ar cru', either. AFAIK they have > to be built using link.exe, e.g. > > link.exe /lib /OUT:libmylib.lib foo.obj bar.obj