Re: USE_GMODULE for msvc

[Gary V.Vaughan <gvv techie com>]

On Sunday 01 April 2001  1:38 pm, Hans Breuer wrote:
> At 12:43 01.04.01 +0100, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> > As always, patches gratefully accepted...
>
> If there are clear, documented goals what to obtain from libtool with msvc
> (and if it is written in a language I'm used to), I would volunteer to give
> you a helping hand ...

That would be very much appreciated, thanks.

It is written in so-called ``portable bourne shell'', though I have no 
problem with translating from a local bourne shell to portable bourne shell.  
As for ``well documented'', the configuration generally requires making sure 
that a large number of variables are set appropriately based on configure 
detected platform details (little more than a host triplet, and path 
to the compiler, linker, ranlib, nm, dlltool etc).  The list of variables is 
documented in the libtool manual, and the relevant parts of the code are 
marked with a `#PORTME' comment in libtool.m4 and ltmain.in.

You also have a head start, because the code for the old MSVC port is still 
in place, so it should only be a matter of tweaking and perhaps adding 
settings for some of the newer PORTME vars.

Cheers,
	Gary.
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