Re: [AD] Building Allegro for MSVC using the latest Cygwin is broken

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Evert Glebbeek wrote:
> On Monday 07 March 2005 11:57, Andrei Ellman wrote:
>
> > 2. The program runner.exe that is built during the Allegro build-process 
> > should call the MSVC executables by the absolute pathname.
>
> I think 2 is clearly the best solution.

Is runner.exe only used to invoke the compiler-specific executables, or 
is it used to invoke some DOS commands as well?

Do you think runner.exe should use the MSVCDIR (or MSVCDir) environment 
variable to prepend the path-name to the command-line, or do you think 
that the makefile should pass the command-line as a paramater to 
runner.exe? The former is the cleanest solution, but if there are 
several compilers installed, then if the MSVCDir environment variable is 
set, then that might cause problems for when building Allegro for other 
compilers.


AE.