Re: Do autotools support free Microsoft compiler?

Braden McDaniel wrote:
> Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
>
> > Microsoft has now made its optimizing C/C++ compilers for Windows
> > available as a free download.  See
> > "http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/vctoolkit2003/";.  Do GNU Autotools
> > work with this compiler?
>
>
> autoconf, basically. autoconf's check for whether it can use -g is 
> busted, but the effect of this is just a benign warning from the 
> compiler. (I have a patch for this that I submitted to autoconf-patches 
> many months ago; but it was ignored.)
>
> libtool, unfortunately, is quite broken. There is some bitrotted support 
> for cl/lib. But as I understand it this was maimed as a side effect of 
> improvements to gcc/win32 support. I have threatened in the past to fix 
> this; unfortunately, I just haven't found the time.

There is the very, very cool cccl project:

http://cccl.sourceforge.net/

though I don't know whether it works with the free beer compilers from 
MS. It works quite well with autoqt and VC++ 6 in order to build our 
theorem prover and link the GUI to qt all from the same autotools build 
scripts we use under unix.

cheers,
dalibor topic