cl.exe is microsoft's compiler

Kevin Brosius wrote:

>Patrick Pattison wrote:
>
>>
>>Hello,  I am working tring to make XFree86 4.1.0 on a Windows 95 Machine, kind of a 
>twisted experiment.  Anyway, I am looking through the Makefiles, and I see that in 
>the xc/config/imake/Makefile.ini file under the rules for making imake.exe, the 
>command line called out begins with cl, in fact the entire line is as follows:
>>cl -nologo imake.obj libc.lib kernel32.lib
>>and then again with the rules for making imake.obj:
>>cl -nologo -W2 -D__STDC__ -c -DWIN32 $(CFLAGS) imake.c
>>
>>Now this may be a dumb question but what is cl?  I have looked through all the GNU 
>rescources I can find, and find no mention of cl, the closest I think I  can think of 
>is Common-Lisp, but that doesn't look right....
>>
>>Anyway, if someone could indetify this rogue 'cl' program, I would appriciate it.
>>
>
>Probably a Cygwin binary, it's not a GNU binary, at least doesn't exist
>here on Linux.  Have you setup any of the environment for a Windows
>build of XFree86 yet?
>


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