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From: Tristan Miller
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2003 17:15

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Greetings.

In article <20031209162310.5e773665.paolino.gnu@disi.unige.it>, Paolo
Gianrossi wrote:
>> SHORT STORY:  In addition to the standard Unix configure script, I
>> want Autoconf/Automake to produce separate ready-to-use Makefiles and
>> config.h files for use with popular Windows compilers, and then
>> include
>> these alternatives in my distribution.  Is this possible, and if so,
>> how should I do it?
> 
> mmh i'm fraid you'd need to have a sh interpreter on your winboxes to
> use the ./configure script... but then again, i might be wrong.. :(

Read the long story version... I'm aware of this.  I'm not suggesting
that a Windows user execute the ./configure script; rather, I'm asking
if there's a way I as the package distributior can auto-generate
Windows NMAKE Makefiles to include in the distribution.

Regards,
Tristan

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