[PATCH 4/4] configure.ac: Add support for MSVC.

Robert Shearman rob at codeweavers.com
Fri Apr 4 06:36:57 CDT 2008


Alexandre Julliard wrote:
> Robert Shearman <rob at codeweavers.com> writes:
>   
>> MSVC needs a lot more in the way of rule changes and/or helper scripts
>> for it to work properly, but this is a good start.
>>     
>
> I'm not sure I see the point. You can't really run configure or make on
> an MSVC setup anyway.

Well, you can. MSVC can be run in wine and you can install a Win32 port 
of sh to run configure on Windows and all of our configure tests work.

> It seems to me that something like msvcmaker is a
> better solution.

Yes, you're right. I wish I'd known about the purpose of this tool 
before I went down the route that I did...

-- 
Rob Shearman




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