RE: OT: MS Visual C++ Makefiles

["Polley Christopher W" <PolleyChristopherW@JohnDeere.com>]

John Vincent wrote on Friday, August 23, 2002 11:35 AM:
>To: soren_andersen@fastmail.fm; cygwin@cygwin.com
>Subject: Re: OT: MS Visual C++ Makefiles
>
>
>Hi,
>
>I'd also be interested in such a utility. I tried a google
>search, and although I found some relevent discussions, I
>failed to find any tools or a specific URL. Can anyone help
>me out on this?
>
>Thanks in advance
>/John Vincent.
>
>
>>From: Soren A <soren_andersen@fastmail.fm>
>>To: cygwin@cygwin.com
>>Subject: Re: OT: MS Visual C++ Makefiles
>>Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 14:05:59 +0000 (UTC)
>>
>>Corinna Vinschen <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote around 08 Feb 2002
>>news:20020208125717.C12075@cygbert.vinschen.de about %s:
>>
>> > From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin@cygwin.com>
>> > On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 11:21:55AM -0000, Simon McCaughey wrote:
>> >> Has anyone ever written a makefile converter so that a project
>> >> written in MS VC++ can be compiled with gcc?
>> >>
>> >> Would anyone else find this useful?
>> >
>> > This *might* be OT but actually I would find that useful, yes.
>> > I have no idea if sth. like that already exists.
>>
>>This article is so old that it's very unlikely the orig. poster still
>>cares about seeing an answer here, but just FYI I will mention that I
>>believe that something like this does exist. Jose Fonseca, I 
>recall, who
>>is active in MinGW development, wrote an awk script to do 
>this. His site
>>seems to flicker in and out of existence (sorry, I don't have the url
>>but it's findable on Google).
>>
>>   HTH,
>>    Soren
>>

This was posted on another list.  See:
http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/6013/2002/2/150/7847100/
and
http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/6013/2002/2/150/7847323/

also, try http://mefriss1.swan.ac.uk/~jfonseca/gnu-win32/software/msds/


Regards,
Chris




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