[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:  major     |    Component:  configuration tests
 Version:  0.5       |   Resolution:                     
Keywords:            |  
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Comment (by lou):

 Well, Philip hooked me into this, and the problems go deep. Autoconf is
 not at its best with cl. There's a deep problem with exit(); see
 [http://www.nabble.com/_AC_PROG_CXX_EXIT_DECLARATION-incomplete-for-
 Microsoft-tools-tf1380514.html#a3719687  this ref] for an explanation.
 This is fixed in autoconf 2.60. Maybe it's time to start thinking
 seriously about upgrading from 2.59.

 Rather than forcing cl and link as command line flags, a cleaner solution
 is to change the code in coin.m4. Reorder the search list to AC_PROG_CC
 and AC_PROG_CXX, and do some other tweaks. I'm proposing (see
 [http://list.coin-or.org/pipermail/buildtools/2006-November/000005.html
 BuildTools posting]) that we change the usage of enable-doscompile so that
 it takes a value. Possible values would be cygwin, mingw, msvc, and
 possibly msys (Kipp recommends MSYS as a build environment).

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