Re: Re: MSYS & Visual Studio Interaction

> Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 19:17:50 +0000
> From: Greg Chicares <chicares-j9pdmedNgrk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To:  mingw-msys-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Mingw-msys] MSYS & Visual Studio Interaction
> Reply-To: mingw-msys-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> On 2006-1-20 19:07 UTC, Thomas Stover wrote:Hi I really appreciate the 
> existence of msys. Lately I have been
> experimenting with building my mingw + msys + autoconf + gmake projects
> with msys + autoconf + gmake + Visual Studio. To this end, I just
> started a wrapper around VS's cl.exe that aims to behave much like gcc.
> If anyone is interested in this sort of thing, check it out:
> http://www.wsinnovations.com/softeng/projects/wcc/index.html
>  
>
>
> What advantage does it have over <http://cccl.sourceforge.net/>?
>
>  
Hmm, I didn't know about cccl. Lets see.... After looking at it for a 
while here are a few differences I picked out:
-cccl is a shell script (GNU license), wcc is a C program (BSD license).
-cccl handles some options in a better way than wcc. (I'll get around to 
fixing that though)
-wcc performs various additional behind the scenes file operations to 
make it more gcc like, such as: it wont leave created .obj files around 
unless your using -c, .o files will work as .objs, default output file 
name is a.exe, etc.
-wcc supports more flags like -D, -U, -E, -w, -Wall, -O2, -I
-wcc supports building dll's with -shared, -o, as well as the do-nothing 
-fpic, and -Wl
-cccl's -lshared translates to libshared.lib were as wcc's -lshared will 
scan through various places looking for libshared.lib or shared.lib then 
pass the full path to cl.exe (this solves some odd ball problems I had)

Thanks for informing me about cccl. Had I known about it before, I might 
have just added on to it. Since I spent the better part of a weekend on 
wcc though I'm sticking to it.




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