Re: --with-xxxx-path parameters does not work for configure script on Windows

Jeongkyu Kim wrote:

>On 9/6/05, Volker Quetschke <[email protected]> wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi Jeongkyu,
>>
>>    
>>
>>>For building OO.o 2.0 on Windows, I tried to set following parameters
>>>but the paths don't count in configure script (I tried both long
>>>format and 8.3 format).
>>>
>>>--with-mspdb-path
>>>--with-midl-path
>>>--with-csc-path
>>>--with-nsis-path
>>>
>>>Is this my own problem or known issue?
>>>      
>>>
>>No, works just fine. If you tell us what you did, we could tell you
>>what to change.
>>
>>    
>>
>
>This might be only for me but I was confused by configure output.
>
>Without setting for mspdb path, configure stopped. With correct
>--with-mspdb-path, it passed with message,
>'checking the Microsoft C/C++ Compiler... checking for mspdb71.dll... no
>found (/cygdrive/c/PROGRA~1/MICROS~2.NET/Vc7/bin/cl.exe)'
>.
>Without setting for csc path, configure stopped. With correct
>--with-csc-path, it passed with message,
>'checking for csc.exe... no'
>.
>Without setting for nsis path, there was a warning at the end of
>output. With correct --with-nsis-path, it passed with message,
>'checking for NSIS... checking for nsis.exe... no
>found (/cygdrive/c/PROGRA~1/NSIS)'
>.
>However, configure did not stopped without midl setting. And I tried both
>  --with-midl-path="/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio
>.NET 2003/Common7/Tools/bin" and
>  --with-midl-path="/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio
>.NET 2003/Common7/Tools"
>but still I got a message, 'checking for midl.exe... no'. Thus I could
>not confirm midl path was correctly set.
>
>And --with-cl-home was little bit tricky because I had to set
>"/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003/Vc7"
>instead of "/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio .NET
>2003/Vc7/bin" which has cl.exe.
>
>For now, I am going to stick with PATH variable method which gives me
>more comfortable output. :-)
>  
>
I have also noticed that the configure output seems to be wrong, and the 
expected arguments to configure are strange without explanation...

David