Re: ARCH_SUFFIX for arm on MSW

On Wed, 10 Jan 2024 13:52:31 +0200 (EET) Lauri Nurmi wrote:

LN> I have recently experimented a little with cross-compiling wxMSW for ARM 
LN> and ARM64 with Visual Studio.

 I had no idea MSVS supported 32-bit ARM, to be honest.

LN> One observation is that while ARCH_SUFFIX for arm64 is _arm64, for 32-bit 
LN> arm it is simply empty. Meaning that whereas arm64 objects are placed in 
LN> e.g. build/msw/vc_arm64_mswudll-15.0/, 32-bit arm objects go to 
LN> build/msw/vc_mswudll-15.0/, which is the same path that is used for x86 
LN> objects.
LN> 
LN> And no wonder that the behaviour is like this, because the bakefile 
LN> doesn't specify any ARCH_SUFFIX in that case: 
LN> https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/blob/master/build/bakefiles/common.bkl#L35-L48
LN> 
LN> But is this intentional?

 I'm pretty sure that this is just because only ARM64 support was added and
not plain ARM. If it also supported, it should be handled here, of course.
If you can make the necessary changes to the bakefile, I can rebake myself
if you have trouble doing it.

 Thanks,
VZ

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