[XviD-devel] Re: Automatic benchmark / compile

Christoph Lampert xvid-devel@xvid.org
Tue, 21 Jan 2003 20:06:12 +0100 (CET)


On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Edouard Gomez wrote:

> Christoph Lampert (chl@math.uni-bonn.de) wrote:
> > But the results won't help them, because the cygwin flags can't be used
> > for MS VC. Or is there a command line version of the MS compiler?  (Sorry,
> > I really know nothing about developing with MS)
> 
> There is cl.exe in one the PATH defined in vcvars32.bat shipped with at
> least VisualC++ 5/6
> 
> The problem is they don't use the same options at all, and cl.exe has
> far less options than gcc concerning code generation and CPU specific
> optimization.

Sure, but that's not the problem, because one can define a set of flags
for every compiler. It's just important if flags that are good for cl.exe 
can be used for a MS VC project-file as well and have the same effect
there (or can easily be translated). 

gruel