From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:51:18 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] Enable compilation by Makefile for the MSVC toolchain
Message-ID: <7vtz05dq0p.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1250600335-8642-1-git-send-email-mstormo@gmail.com>

Marius Storm-Olsen <mstormo@gmail.com> writes:

Marius Storm-Olsen <mstormo@gmail.com> writes:

> +ARFLAGS = rcs\ # whitespace intentional
> +COMPFLAG = -c
> +COBJFLAG = -o\ # whitespace intended
> +LOBJFLAG = -o\ # whitespace intended
> ...
> +ifneq (,$(findstring Microsoft Visual Studio, $(INCLUDE)))
> +	CC = cl 
> +	COBJFLAG = -Fo
> +	LOBJFLAG = -OUT:
> +	CFLAGS =
>  git.o: git.c common-cmds.h GIT-CFLAGS
> ...
> -		$(ALL_CFLAGS) -c $(filter %.c,$^)
> +		$(ALL_CFLAGS) $(COMPFLAG) $(COBJFLAG)git.o $(filter %.c,$^)

Since use of make implies use of shell, this makes me wonder if it would
make sense to go one step further by giving msvc users a thin shell
wrapper mcvc-cc that turns bog-standard cc command line into whatever cl
uses.