Howard, Would you be interested in supporting MSVC command-line builds using gcc2cl? It requires some changes to the autoconf files, but the point of using it is that it appears to the build as if gcc is being used. We've been building openldap this way for a couple of years now. I'm betting that there are many companies out there that have strict standards about the compilers that are used, and that for Windows MSVC is the default choice.
Regards, Steven -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Howard Chu Sent: Wednesday, 12 May 2004 3:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Win32 compiles under cygwin Speaking as a member of the Openldap core team, I'll just point out that we support building on Windows using MinGW. Normally I build with the Cygwin toolchain, but only in -mno-cygwin mode. When we tested Cygwin (~3 years ago) we found the performance to be unacceptable and so have only used the native Windows APIs. I hear that Cygwin has gotten much improved in recent times but we have no interest in it now. I use the same setup to build OpenSSL on Windows. The MSVC project files for OpenLDAP have also been abandoned in OpenLDAP 2.2. The MinGW build is the only one we continue to develop and test. -- Howard Chu Chief Architect, Symas Corp. Director, Highland Sun http://www.symas.com http://highlandsun.com/hyc Symas: Premier OpenSource Development and Support > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Steven Reddie > I believe I wrote gcc2cl originally to get the OpenLDAP build working > (OpenLDAP doesn't seem to support a Windows build out-of-the-box, > although the code supports Windows, and a separate IDE project file is > needed). Yes, > autoconf was the difficulty with OpenLDAP that required > gcc2cl. Later when > doing some work on our OpenSSL build I switched it to gcc2cl > partly because > I had it available. It would surely be possible to do it > without gcc2cl, I > just found that the way to go to minimise changes in OpenSSL. > However, the > INCLUDE and LIB make variables used in OpenSSL needed to be > renamed so that > they don't overwrite what is expected by cl. ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
