Halo to everybody, It was just recently that I decided to port a personal project of mine to the new autotools (automake-1.6, autoconf=2.53). My project use no fancy OS/platform specific stuff. It is mostly plain old ANSI C doing a lot of number crunching (really a lot).
So I ported it to autoconf, automake. At that point I would like to
thank everybody who ever contributed to either project. I am really
thankful about both for your efforts and the final results.
OK that was easy. Porting is never that easy. I decided to push my lack
a little, so here comes the interesting part.
I first tried gcc on a cygwin installation. Worked fine.
Then I thought to try another compiler. In my windows installation I
have (besides cygwin):
-MSVC 5
-Borland C 5.5.1 (freely downloadable)
-Digital Mars 8.2.x
Being the lazy guy I am I thought to try use them through WINE to avoid
boot in windows. So I just took a shot on the compilers to see if they
are functional under WINE.
-Cygwin is mostly functional (actually required) but gcc does not
make it to produce executable.
-MSVC 5.0 is fully functional
-Borland BCC 5.5.1 compiles but not links :(
-DM is fully functional
So now let's try autoconf on
-MSVC cl works like a champ. It needs to set environmental variables,
but other than this, its command line is gcc compatible.
-Under win32 works. For convenient libraries cygwin ar is used.
-Under WINE it compiles nice but it uses linux ar to create the
archives. Then the cl cannot recognize the format and the final
linking fails due to unresolved symbols
-BCC needs a wrapper script. Things line -E for preprocessor, -e
instead of -o for executable. I provided the wrapper script as an
attachment
-Under win32 it works (with the script) but fails on linking (cygwin
ar instead of LIB). It looks that the borland linker is not so
graceful as microsoft's.
-Under WINE does not make it through autoconf. It does not produce
executable due to a strange addressing bug in the link phase. There
were reports for that matter in wine-devel so I will ask there.
-DM is brain damaged. Although it works flawlessly under WINE, it can't
pass autoconf tests because it has practically no sane preprocessor mode.
So the real problem encountered so far was that I didn't have a way to
overload the AR program variable like CC or AWK for example.
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That's all folks, thank you again.
.Bill
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