On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 12:14:49PM -0500, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
> 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/
It may be that people use MSVC project files to build Abi. However,
the "official" way to build abi on Win32 boxes is using Cygwin. And
Cygwin definitely supports autoconf.
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