[distcc] MS Visual C++ support

[Martin Pool]

On  5 Nov 2002, Michael Santy <mike.santy at dynetics.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Has anyone looked into supporting MSVC with distcc?  Like gcc, it is 
> able to produce pre-processed source (analogous to the distcc client) 
> and is capable of compiling pre-processed source (analogous to the 
> distcc server).  Really, these seem to be the only two requirements to 
> supporting a new compiler.  I'm willing to do the work, but don't quite 
> know where to start, and don't want to start from scratch if somebody 
> else has looked into it.

I don't have any Windows machines at home, so all this is only
speculation:

Basically, why not start by trying to change the Makefile-equivalent
for VC++ to call "distcc cc"?  Turn up logging and see what happens.

Send mail to the list with your discoveries.

It may be necessary to port distcc to Mingw to get good spawn
performance, but we can worry about that once it's working.  Mingw is
another POSIX-like layer on W32, similar to Cygwin.

-- 
Martin

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