[Mingw-users] using mingw with cl and makefiles

[Dill, J. <joh...@ui...>]

My first question is whether you can use the Visual C++ compiler cl with =
mingw?

Secondly, I have a test mechanism where many single program tests reside =
in one directory to test the functionality of some of my library =
objects.  With a makefile, I can provide the rules to generate the =
programs, but with the Visual Studio IDE, I don't know how to generate a =
1-1 source code to executable, which ends up I need to generate project =
files for each test file.

e.g.

object_function_test1.cpp
object_function_test2.cpp
object_function_test3.cpp
object_function_test4.cpp

And my makefile can generate the programs

./platform/compiler/compiler_version/abi/object_function_test1
./platform/compiler/compiler_version/abi/object_function_test2
./platform/compiler/compiler_version/abi/object_function_test3
./platform/compiler/compiler_version/abi/object_function_test4

for gcc and intel(on linux) compilers.

I would like to adapt the makefile system if possible to translate the =
makefile commands to the appropriate compiler commands, flags, for the =
cl program.  Any suggestions to help get me started (or to shoo me away =
from trying this)?  Has anyone wrote a simple makefile which uses cl?

Many thanks,
John