[BuildTools] afterthougts re. libtool & cl support

[Kipp Martin]

Hi Lou:


> might save us work.  Question is, how many among us have good cl
> expertise?  Philip (Walton), are you reading this?  Kip? Jun?
> 

I use cl, BuildTools, and MSYS for my Windows builds and have had pretty 
  good luck building my project, and other COIN projects. However, I AM 
NOT an expert, or even mediocre for that matter, maybe a D- student.  I 
think Philip and JP are among the most knowledgeable MS people, although 
I also think they tend to use the MS IDE Visual Studio.

I think I mentioned to you Lou, in an earlier email, that I have not had 
too much difficulty with the configure script recognizing and using the 
correct MS compiler and linker.

Now, I do have problems with the lib tool and static libs with the 
ADDLIBS variable, especially third party libs. For example,

when executing ./configure I use

./configure  CPPFLAGS=-D_LINDO_DLL_
--with-lindo-lib="/home/kmartin/COIN-OS/ThirdParty/lindo/lib/lindo4_1.lib"
--with-lindo-incdir=/home/kmartin/COIN-OS/ThirdParty/lindo/include

This causes a problem with libtool in that doing the above
evidently adds the lindo4_1.lib to ADDLIBS. Then libtool thinks that
this is a dynamic library and complains about it. Things still seem to
work, but is there a way to keep libtools from thinking that this is a
dynamic library?


Anyway, I am willing to help if I can, I think it is important, 
especially for the binary project to use BuildTools with cl.

Cheers,
-- 
Kipp Martin
Professor of Operations Research
and Computing Technology
Graduate School of Business
University of Chicago
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