Add MSVC support
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In conda-forge/re2c-feedstock#5, we got all of re2c to build with MSVC 2015, but there is a failure at link time, it can't find some files on Azure. On Appveyor, it can't find "ld" (https://ci.appveyor.com/project/conda-forge/re2c-feedstock/builds/26655531/job/6y5xmif44imor5y5). Both of these errors would almost for sure go away if re2c switched to cmake (#244). I think it's too hard to try to fix these errors with autotools.
Would you be interested in supporting MSVC?
On Appveyor, it can't find "ld"
Sounds like a toolchain bug in the build environment. Looking at the config.log might help.
@certik , I myself am no cmake expert, and I don't have the bandwidth for it at the moment. But if you are willing to contribute a working cmake build system to re2c, I will merge it and do my best to maintain it (perhaps it will coexist with autotools for a while). There is some useful discussion and a more or less full list of requirements in #244. I realize the importance for MSVC users.
The problem in the build log seems unrelated to autotools vs cmake argument (linker is not found).