> The basic problem we face is that in Unixland we have the autoconf
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> In Windowsland, to my knowledge, we have no such tool -
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I've thought about this before.
Someone should write a tool that replaces autotools/configure with
generated scripts that areWindow SDK/MSC/NMake-centric.
MSFT should fund /grant a student to do it. It would help them reclaim
some compiler marketshare, while funding an open^Wshared source project.
Heck, If the solution tied people to Visual Studio, they'd pay a company
to write it for them. Like people write QuickStart SDK samples, etc.
Maybe someone here recently visited Redmond? :-) Or if not MSFT, maybe GSoC?
The Antinat proxy has an "autowin", currently just a fancy makefile, it
might be a starting point.
http://antinat.sourceforge.net/build.shtml
The stuff you -- and the OpenSSL project -- do is already pretty fancy
custom build script generation.
