From: Neil Gower <neilg AT inago DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: using configure with VC6?
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 16:11:59 -0400
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Hi folks,

I'm trying to build some code that was distributed with a GNU configure 
script using the MS VC6 compiler (i.e. cl.exe and nmake) on W2K.  I 
installed:


acnf250b.zip  djdev203.zip  grep24b.zip  sed3028b.zip
bsh204b.zip   fil41b.zip    gwk311b.zip  shl2011b.zip
dif28b.zip    find41b.zip   txt20b.zip


I set CC=cl, and cl (the compiler) seems to work fine from the prompt. 
However, when I run configure, I get:


bash-2.04$ ./configure
loading site script d:/djgpp/share/config.site
loading cache ./config.cache
checking for a BSD compatible install... ./install-sh -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... no
checking for working aclocal... missing
checking for working autoconf... missing
checking for working automake... missing
checking for working autoheader... found
checking for working makeinfo... missing
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking for gcc... cl
checking whether the C compiler (cl  ) works... no
configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler 
cannot create executables.


Clearly I'm doing something wrong.  :-)  Is is even possible to make 
configure work with VC6?  Much thanks to anyone who can shed some light 
on this.

Thanks,

Neil