Mike Nordell>> We support platforms that don't have autoconf.
Sam TH> No we don't. Wv uses autoconf. And we will too, once I get it
Sam TH> working. What platforms do you think it doesn't work on?
Mike doesn't use autoconf - he has this really nice set of MSVC project
files to build AbiWord and its other required libraries, even if *they* use
autoconf (like iconv, png, zlib, wv, etc...)
You don't need autoconf to build these things - all autoconf does is
determine some platform and build specific values to help ease portability.
This "ease of portability" is great if you have the GNU tools installed on
your box. However, if you know what to properly define in, say, config.h,
you don't need autoconf and can get away with plain-old Makefiles or VC
project files.
So am I safe in assuming that this will become a moot point once someone
properly creates VC project files? An alternative is possibly to download
the CygWin package from Cygnus: http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/
Dom
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