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Article #3742Re: GNU Autoconf & MS-Windows
From: Dmitry Karasik
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 10:10
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 10:10
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Hi Tristan! On 09 Dec 03 at 18:15, "Tristan" (Tristan Miller) wrote: Tristan> Greetings. In article Tristan> <20031209162310.5e773665.paolino.gnu@disi.unige.it>, Paolo Tristan> 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.. :( Tristan> Read the long story version... I'm aware of this. I'm not Tristan> suggesting that a Windows user execute the ./configure script; Tristan> rather, I'm asking if there's a way I as the package distributior Tristan> can auto-generate Windows NMAKE Makefiles to include in the Tristan> distribution. You can supply set of ready-to-use files, Makefile.bcc, Makefile.m$vc, etc, with paths and variables set to reasonable defaults. The user is then expected to hack Makefile before the compilcation. You can look at how perl distribution does this. -- Sincerely, Dmitry --- www.karasik.eu.org --- He who dies with most the toys wins
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