Re: [lmi] upgrade to xmlwrapp-0.6.0

[Greg Chicares]

On 2009-04-17 13:05Z, Vaclav Slavik wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 12:35 +0000, Greg Chicares wrote:
>> >         This upgrades xmlwrapp to 0.6.0 on Windows. Unlike my previous
>> >         (unapplied) patch to upgrade to 0.5.1, this one is more
>> >         complicated, because xmlwrapp now uses standard Autotools build
>> >         system and so LMI no longer needs to build it on its own.
>> 
>> Can the autotools build system be used with Comeau C++ for msw?
>> Or with msvc?
> 
> AFAIK not. Some people put some work into making VC++ work with
> autotools, but I don't think anything usable came out of that.

Yes, that's the impression I had a few years ago:
  http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/lmi/2006-02/msg00009.html
and a little searching suggests that there's been no progress since.

> As for MSVC, xmlwrapp comes with project files for it, so it's easily
> buildable with it (this is same as in libxml2 and libxslt, BTW). I plan
> to switch its build system to be based on Bakefile
> (http://www.bakefile.org) in the future and Comeau support could be
> added to it too (I never used it myself, so I don't know what is
> needed).
> 
> How do you solve building of libxml2/libxslt with Comeau C++?

libxml2 and libxslt are just C libraries. I build them with MinGW gcc
(using autotools, incidentally), and they link successfully with Comeau.