Peter Rosin <p...@lysator.liu.se> 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 (r...@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>