[distcc] Re: MS Visual C++ support

[Michael Santy]

I'm aware of MinGW (I couldn't stand windows without it).  However, 
MinGW has not implemented fork().  Perhaps fork() could be replaced with 
a native Win32 call CreateProcess (via the w32api mingw package).

I have looked at the source, and see where the command line options for 
cc are being parsed and stripped.  Adding the switches for msvc looks 
like it will be the majority of work.

Does distcc care what suffix the preprocessed source and the object 
files have (eg .obj instead of .o)?

Thanks,
Mike

Martin Pool wrote:

> On  5 Nov 2002, Michael Santy  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.
>