Re: Improve Autoconf MSVC support

2024-06-03 Thread Nick Bowler
On 2024-06-03 16:19, Antonin Décimo wrote: >> I guess you are not using Automake, because both of these problems >> should be solved automatically by Automake. Automake replaces $CC >> with invocations through a wrapper script that knows how to translate >> -l and -o options into MSVC equivalents

Re: Improve Autoconf MSVC support

2024-06-03 Thread Antonin Décimo
Hi Nick, Thank you for your reply! > I guess you are not using Automake, because both of these problems > should be solved automatically by Automake. Automake replaces $CC > with invocations through a wrapper script that knows how to translate > -l and -o options into MSVC equivalents (such as -F

Re: Improve Autoconf MSVC support

2024-06-03 Thread Nick Bowler
Hi Antonin, On 2024-06-03 12:05, Antonin Décimo wrote: > Dear maintainers, > > I've listed three little problems I've had using MSVC and Autoconf. > They stem from MSVC not accepting the same parameters from the usual > unix tools. I wonder if these could be fixed. I'm happy to help with > testin

Re: Improve Autoconf MSVC support

2024-06-03 Thread Paul Eggert
Thanks for your helpful comments. Would you be up to writing and testing Autoconf patches to support MSVC better? I don't use MSVC and so would not be good for that. Thanks.

Improve Autoconf MSVC support

2024-06-03 Thread Antonin Décimo
Dear maintainers, I've listed three little problems I've had using MSVC and Autoconf. They stem from MSVC not accepting the same parameters from the usual unix tools. I wonder if these could be fixed. I'm happy to help with testing. Note that MSVC supports both `/param` and `-param` styles; the f