Re: [PATCH 0/2] Modernize header checks
Russ Allbery <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.patches |
|---|---|
| Organization | The Eyrie |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Peter Rosin <[email protected]> writes: > On 2013-06-01 00:06, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Autoconf doesn't work with MSVC directly so far as I know. All of the >> packages I have that are ported to MSVC have a separate hand-written >> config.h that's used for MSVC builds, and in that file one simply >> doesn't define HAVE_STRINGS_H. > What do you mean directly? MSYS can drive a build using MSVC as toolchain > (instead of MinGW) just fine. I do it all the time. I meant in terms of being able to probe directly for a header file using the standard configure script, so I may be wrong. You can currently get "checking for strings.h... not found" on Windows systems from the regular configure script? -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>