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From: earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com (Earnie Boyd)
Subject: Re: "cl" wrapper for gcc
26 Mar 1998 20:51:06 -0800 :
Message-ID: <19980324122842.16304.qmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@hotmail.com>
To: epa AT datcon DOT co DOT uk
Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com


>From: Edward Avis <EPA AT datcon DOT co DOT uk>
>To: "'gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com'" <gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com>
>Subject: "cl" wrapper for gcc
>Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 14:06:10 -0000
>
>Some Unix-like toolkits for NT (such as AT&T's stuff by David Korn, and 
>Microsoft's own POSIX tools in the Resource kit) contain a command "cc" 
>which is a wrapper for VC++'s cl.exe, translating Unix compiler 
switches 
>into Windows compiler switches.
>
>Has anyone made a wrapper the other way, that is called "cl" and 
accepting 
>the same switches as Microsoft's cl.exe, but really invoking gcc?  I 
>imagine this would be very useful to migrate from VC++ to Ming.
>

I've not heard of anyone doing this yet.  Sounds like a worthy item.  
Are you willing to give it a try?

>--
>Ed Avis
>epa AT datcon DOT co DOT uk
>http://members.tripod.com/~mave/index.html
>
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