[CLN-list] libtool, MSVC and asm files

[Richard B. Kreckel]

On 04/14/2011 02:52 PM, Jan wrote:
> the current CLN distribution mentions some assembler files in
> Makefile.am, e.g.
>
> cl_asm.S
> cl_asm_GF2.S
>
> When compiling CLN with MSVC, this produces the error
>
> cl : Command line warning D9024 : unrecognized source file type
> 'base/digitseq/cl_asm.S', object file assumed
> cl : Command line warning D9027 : source file 'base/digitseq/cl_asm.S'
> ignored
> cl : Command line warning D9021 : no action performed
>
> In other words, renaming the file to have a known extension (e.g. .cc)
> would solve the issue. Of course, there are two places to do this
> a) in the CLN sources
> b) have libtool change the file name when working with MSVC
>
> ----------- commands -----------
> ./configure CC=cl CXX=cl CCAS=cl LD=link MANIFEST_TOOL=mt
> CPPFLAGS="-DNO_ASM -EHsc" --host=i586-mingw32msvc

If somebody is working on a patch for this, please let me know.
Otherwise, I'll make a release next weekened.

   -richy.
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Richard B. Kreckel
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