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@@ -1,2 +1,19 @@ -Note that while this project is called msvc-linux, you may be able to use it -on other UNIX-like systems supported by Wine. +Cross-compiling from UNIX to Windows with MSVC using Wine. + +NOTE: we no longer recommend using this approach unless you absolutely +must. Firstly, the whole setup is very hacky and brittle (and potentially +illegal: we were told it's against the license to run MSVC like that) and +often doesn't work with the most recent versions of MSVC (because Wine hasn't +caught up on the new APIs yet). Also, there are edge cases where build2 does +not fully support this "mode" of running MSVC. It works for projects that +don't do anything unusual, but, for example, you won't be able to build +anything that requires MASM. We believe if you must test with MSVC, the only +sane way to do it is with a Windows VM (which is what we do on our CI). If you +just need to test that your code builds for Windows, another option is to use +Clang and the LLVM linker (lld-link) as a cross-compiler. With this approach +you will only need to copy the MSVC standard library and PlatformSDK (and +won't need to mess with Wine). + +See INSTALL for setup instructions. Note that while this project is called +msvc-linux, you may be able to use it on other UNIX-like systems supported +by Wine. @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ : 1 name: msvc-linux -version: 0.15.0-a.0.z +version: 0.17.0-a.0.z project: build2 summary: MS Visual C++ as cross-compiler driver scripts license: MIT @@ -14,6 +14,6 @@ src-url: https://git.build2.org/cgit/etc/msvc-linux/tree/ email: users@build2.org build-warning-email: builds@build2.org requires: c++14 -depends: * build2 >= 0.14.0- -depends: * bpkg >= 0.14.0- -depends: libbutl [0.15.0-a.0.1 0.15.0-a.1) +depends: * build2 >= 0.16.0- +depends: * bpkg >= 0.16.0- +depends: libbutl [0.17.0-a.0.1 0.17.0-a.1) |