Re: [ros-dev] [ros-diffs] [hyperion] 41343: modified tools/rbuild/backend/mingw/mingw.cpp modified tools/rbuild/backend/mingw/mingw.h From now on, the MinGW back-end will also support the Microsoft command line C/C++ compiler (cl) and incremental linker (link)

[Steven Edwards]

On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 7:33 PM, [e-mail] wrote:
> +#include "../../pch.h"

Ditto for here.
> +// TODO? attempt to support Microsoft tools on non-Windows?
> +#if !defined(WIN32)
>
> +bool
> +MingwBackend::DetectMicrosoftCompiler ( std::string& )
> +{
> return false;
>
> +}

There are some crazy people that run cl under Wine. I know older
versions such as the vctoolkit worked. I'm not sure about more recent
revs. I'm happy to try to make time to look in to this at some point.
It would be nice for us Linux and OS X users to be able to verify
things from time to time with msvc without needing a fullblown vm.

Thanks
-- 
Steven Edwards

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