Re: Wrapper around MSVC cl.exe for autoconf.
Norbert, I was thinking of gcc-wrapper more as a libreoffice-internal tool like concat-deps than a external cygwin package. The Microsoft linker is supported by autoconf so it is handled in ExternalProject.mk. Thanks, Peter On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Norbert Thiebaud nthieb...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 4:37 PM, Peter Foley pefol...@verizon.net wrote: I've written a wrapper around MSVC cl.exe for autoconf (see https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Gsoc/Ideas#Gcc_like_wrapper_for_MSC_on_cygwin_and_autotools_compatibility ). The goal of the wrapper is to remove all the custom MSVC logic from the ExternalProject makefiles and let the packages just use autoconf. I've uploaded the gcc-wrapper patch to gerrit as well as two example implementations. The code was rather quickly hacked together so it may still be buggy. Is this something that should be integrated into libreoffice? The wrapper itself, probably not, otherwise you get the usual bootstrap problem... but a solution would be to make it avaiable as an external pre-req like the dozen that Windows already has... Ideally I suppose, in a cygwin-like package (rpm?) that one could install in cygwin... just like we already request for 2 dozen of packages to be installed in cygwin to be able to build... Norbert PS: make sure that the wrapper is 'versionable', since I suspect that some behaviors will depend on the underlying version of the MS compiler... PS2: how do you deal with the 'linker' aspect of things ? ___ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
Wrapper around MSVC cl.exe for autoconf.
I've written a wrapper around MSVC cl.exe for autoconf (see https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Gsoc/Ideas#Gcc_like_wrapper_for_MSC_on_cygwin_and_autotools_compatibility ). The goal of the wrapper is to remove all the custom MSVC logic from the ExternalProject makefiles and let the packages just use autoconf. I've uploaded the gcc-wrapper patch to gerrit as well as two example implementations. The code was rather quickly hacked together so it may still be buggy. Is this something that should be integrated into libreoffice? Thanks, Peter ___ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
Re: Wrapper around MSVC cl.exe for autoconf.
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 4:37 PM, Peter Foley pefol...@verizon.net wrote: I've written a wrapper around MSVC cl.exe for autoconf (see https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Gsoc/Ideas#Gcc_like_wrapper_for_MSC_on_cygwin_and_autotools_compatibility). The goal of the wrapper is to remove all the custom MSVC logic from the ExternalProject makefiles and let the packages just use autoconf. I've uploaded the gcc-wrapper patch to gerrit as well as two example implementations. The code was rather quickly hacked together so it may still be buggy. Is this something that should be integrated into libreoffice? The wrapper itself, probably not, otherwise you get the usual bootstrap problem... but a solution would be to make it avaiable as an external pre-req like the dozen that Windows already has... Ideally I suppose, in a cygwin-like package (rpm?) that one could install in cygwin... just like we already request for 2 dozen of packages to be installed in cygwin to be able to build... Norbert PS: make sure that the wrapper is 'versionable', since I suspect that some behaviors will depend on the underlying version of the MS compiler... PS2: how do you deal with the 'linker' aspect of things ? ___ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
