Create wrappers to use MSVC tools in a Unix way

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Create wrappers to use MSVC tools in a Unix way

Closed this issue 4 years ago · 2 comments

Is it possible to create CC and CXX wrappers for the MSVC cl compiler with Unix interface (e.g. similar to Clang/LLVM or GCC in Unix) that wraps around Unix interface flags to the matching ones in cl, so it can be used in Autoconf based projects?

Answer 1 · 2021-05-05T21:32:48.000Z

Yes, it is possible, various projects have done this.

See e.g. https://github.com/libffi/libffi/blob/master/msvcc.sh and https://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc/vlc-msvc.git;a=blob;f=wrappers/clwrap;h=18d75d455b993a7dbfbce24bb5a524cbdb0dc47a;hb=73c299b2e50f53eea755973cf1a1ddc5794a1837.

It's not something I'm planning on adding in this repo though.

Answer 2 · 2021-05-05T21:35:59.000Z

awesome, thx for linking these projects