Re: Installing synopsis on Windows

On 5/12/07, Stefan Seefeld <[email protected]> wrote:
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>
> David,
>
> I'm very interested in being able to compile Synopsis with MSVC. As you
> know, right now it builds with cygwin gcc, as well as mingw gcc, on
> Windows.
>
> While I can believe that an MSVC 'solution' would be convenient for those
> people used to MSVC, I still wonder whether it might be possible to add
> the required flexibility to the existing build system to invoke MSVC's
> tools (cl.exe, link.exe, etc.) via their command-line interface directly.
> That is what boost.build is doing, and what I'm doing for other projects
> (such as http://www.codesourcery.com/vsiplplusplus) successfully.
>
> Do you think this may be a viable way forward ?
>

Yes I believe it is. It will only take a little more time for me to learn
and tap into the synopsis build system. I was in the impression that
synopsis relied a lot on autoconf and similar scripts that cannot be ported
easily. Where would the cl.exe and link.exe calls be placed in the existing
toolchain ?

D.

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