Re: cl.exe and system types

2018-08-21 Thread Earnie
On 8/21/2018 10:32 AM, Nick Bowler wrote: > Hi Sébastien, > > On 2018-08-21, Sébastien Hinderer wrote: >> What I do not understand, though, is why it is necessary to specify >> --build. I know the manual says that when one specifies --host then one >> has to specify --build, too, for historical

Re: Conflict between standard headers and winsock(2).h

2018-08-21 Thread Peter Rosin
On 2016-01-22 12:33, Marko Lindqvist wrote: > When building a project on MSYS2 environment, my configure fails to > find out that the winsock2.h is available there. > Simple AC_CHECK_HEADER() for winsock2.h fails, and so would many > standard macros if it was to be included. The reason for that

Re: cl.exe and system types

2018-08-21 Thread Peter Rosin
On 2018-08-20 16:11, Sébastien Hinderer wrote: > Dear all, > > I am writing an autoconf script for a project which is supposed to > compile under both Unix and Windows. > > Under Windows, the project will be built under Cygwin but it should be > possible to use both MingW and cl.exe to compile

Re: cl.exe and system types

2018-08-21 Thread Nick Bowler
Hi Sébastien, On 2018-08-21, Sébastien Hinderer wrote: > What I do not understand, though, is why it is necessary to specify > --build. I know the manual says that when one specifies --host then one > has to specify --build, too, for historical reasons, but the manual also > says that this will

Re: cl.exe and system types

2018-08-21 Thread Sébastien Hinderer
Dear Earnie and Bob, Many thanks for your replies. Earnie (2018/08/20 16:07 -0400): > On 8/20/2018 2:19 PM, Sébastien Hinderer wrote: > > Bob Friesenhahn (2018/08/20 12:52 -0500): > >> Are you using Cygwin for your shell environment? > > > > Yes, absolutely. Do you think this makes things