[BuildTools-tickets] Re: [BuildTools] #30: Problem building MSVC v8

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#30: Problem building MSVC v8
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Reporter:  hpwalton  |        Owner:  andreasw           
    Type:  defect    |       Status:  assigned           
Priority:  minor     |    Component:  configuration tests
 Version:  0.5       |   Resolution:                     
Keywords:            |  
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Changes (by andreasw):

  * priority:  major => minor

Comment:

 What is the status on this?

 Looking at the original output it seems that there is a problem with the
 archiver; since it reads {{{false cru}}}. This should be either 'ar' or
 something else with 'lib'.  The value {{{false}}} means that libtool
 doesn't have that correct value; I had implemented automatic changes of
 the libtool script that correct this.  I think that the original problem
 was caused by the fact that this fix was only done for CXX=cl, but not for
 CXX=CL.EXE.

 Actually, I think, CXX=cl.exe will now work, but CXX=CL[.EXE] might still
 fail.

 I don't think this has anything to do with the "exit()" problem of
 autoconf with the CL compiler.  In the coin.m4 tests, I worked around this
 issue by giving a first argument to AC_TRY_LINK, as in

 {{{
                     AC_TRY_LINK([void $4();],[$4()],
                                 [AC_MSG_RESULT(yes)],
                                 [AC_MSG_RESULT(no)
                                  AC_MSG_ERROR([Cannot find symbol $4 with
 $2])])
 }}}
 This way, no automatic pretext is added to the C program (which would
 contain that {{{exit}}} declaration), but instead the program text only
 declares the function that we want to find.

 This seems to overcome the problem for the CL compiler.  Nevertheless, it
 would be nice to switch to newer autoconf, so that this workaround is no
 longer required.

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Ticket URL: <https://projects.coin-or.org/BuildTools/ticket/30#comment:4>
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