Re: Compiling on Windows, using VC or Windows SDK

[Tom Schuetz <toms@treestar.com>]

Thank you--what is CCLD? My google powers fail me on that one, and
searching the mingw dirs on my machine yielded nothing.

On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com> wrote:
> Tom Schuetz wrote:
>>
>> Has anyone successfully compiled openldap using Visual Studio, or
>> Windows SDK? If so, could you share your process with me, what you
>> used for a makefile (or vcproj), approach to dependencies, etc?
>>
>> I have VC 2010 Express on a 64-bit Windows 7 box, and then I also have
>> Windows SDK 7.1.
>>
>> I am comfortable with POSIX OSs and have MinGW installed, but for this
>> I would prefer not to use it to actually compile. Am open to using
>> MinGW to make a useable / translatable makefile, though.
>
>
> MSYS is the only supported build environment. You can use the MS compiler
> via the CCLD wrapper script and the existing autoconf/Makefiles.
>
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