Re: [AD] mingw vc7 make bug?

[aj <aj@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 01:36 PM 11/09/2003 +0200, you wrote:
> > it looks like some make file command is seeing the string  "C:\Program
> > Files\blah\blah"  as two separate strings
> > "C:\Program"  and   "Files\blah\blah"
> > (i guess) it might need quotes around it.
>
> This should have been flagged by the makefile, but it appears that it checks
> only MSVCDIR, not MSVCDir. Can you confirm that the former is not set in
> your environment, only the latter?


i got it to compile,  _finally_   after much massaging :(
seems the problem is that the MSVCDIR  or (upper/lower case 
alternative)  sets the path in vcvars32.bat
with spaces, the trick is to edit the  vcvars32.bat   to the mangled 8.3 
format  //progr~01/  etc.

also, using mingw with vc7  is a very different process to the one 
described in  /docs/build/msvc.txt
i suggest  1 or more of:

* re-write
* amendments
* msvc7.txt  doc added

i will write some text for this in the next days if you think its going to 
get used. ?