Can you share this script with us ? On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Peter A. Castro wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Christophe Dupre wrote: > > > Hello everyone, > > I'm trying to recompile a homegrown program that was originaly > > developped for Unix under Windows. We were successful in compiling this > > program with the cygwin-supplied gcc using our current Makefile. > > > > Now we'd like to recompile with the 'native' compiler, cl.exe provided > > with Visual Studio, as some believe the native compile would produce > > faster binaries (it's a long-running analysis code - even 5% speedup > > would be significant). Also, the gcc binary can't seem to be able to > > allocate more than 1024MB of memory, even though the machine has 4GB > > physical (this is under Windows 2000). Even then, we had to modify a > > registry key to be able to use more than 256MB, which is not great for > > end-users. > > > > Anyway, we're making progress in being able to compile with CL.EXE, but > > we're having trouble with include files. We use the flag > > '-I/home/user/dg/include' to point to the include directory, but it > > can't find it. If we use '-I../include' it works, but for many reasons > > we need to be able to specify absolute paths for include files. > > > > Has anyone done that ? I was not able to find anything relevant in the > > archives. > > I had this same problem to contend with at work. I'd solved it by > writing a wrapper script around cl that massaged the include list to > match Windows syntax and then invoke the real cl. It was a but tricky. > I ended up putting the path with my wrapper earlier in $PATH and calling > cl.exe explicitly. Had to do the same thing with link and lib commands > too. > > > Thanks. > > -- > Peter A. Castro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > "Cats are just autistic Dogs" -- Dr. Tony Attwood > > -- Christophe Dupre System Administrator, Scientific Computation Research Center Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY USA Phone: (518) 276-2578 - Fax: (518) 276-4886 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
