Dear Bob, Many thanks for your responses. Bob Friesenhahn (2018/08/20 10:44 -0500): > I don't know that MSVC is supported by Autotools. It would be nice if it > was. Have you seen a statement that this is supported? Well, here is what AC_PROG_CC outputs when running $ ./configure CC=cl checking for i686-pc-windows-gcc... cl checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking for C compiler default output file name... conftest.exe checking for suffix of executables... .exe checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of object files... obj checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... no checking whether cl accepts -g... yes checking for cl option to accept ISO C89... none needed checking how to run the C preprocessor... cl -E >From that, I inferred that cl is supported. Am I wrong here? Also, in autoconf's documentaiotn, in section 5.10.3 (C compiler characteristics) where the AC_PROG_CC macro is documented, one finds the following example: AC_PROG_CC([gcc cl cc]) >From that, too, I inderred it was okay to use cl.exe in conjunction with an autoconf script. Am I wrong here? Thanks a lot in advance for any help in clarifying this! Sébastien. _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf