On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 1:00 AM, Sven Köhler <sven.koeh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Am 13.10.2012 03:03, schrieb Xiaofan Chen: >> On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 2:15 AM, Orin Eman <orin.e...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Personally, I think it's better to supply native build methods than to try >>> to force autotools to work on systems that don't support it. >> >> Me too. So autotools for Linux and BSDs, XCode for Mac OS X. >> What about Windows? What is native under Windows? Personally >> I think that would be MSVC, WDK (before WDK8) and MinGW. >> Cygwin is not really native but people may want it as well. > > And by MinGW you mean the new MinGW-w64 which allows you to > build 32Bit and 64Bit binaries? It's also available on cygwin, so one could > cross-compile for win32 under cygwin, probably using autotools.
By MinGW I mean both MinGW.org and MinGW-w64. Yes that is true you can cross compile for MinGW, under Linux or under Cygwin. But there are people who do not want to use Cygwin since it is really slow. And obviously there are many who do not want to install Linux just to build libusbx. Actually MinGW+MSys are now very easy to set up so they can use autotools for MinGW without resorting to cross compile. > It would be neat, if it would be possible built libusb with FREE tools > (like Windows SDK and Windows Driver SDK) instead of costly tools like > Visual Studio. I'm not aware, whether some form of "make" program is libusbx supports WDK from the very beginning. You can build libusbx with WDK 7.x. But take note the latest WDK 8 relies on VS2012 non-free versions. Ref: https://github.com/libusbx/libusbx/wiki -- Xiaofan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WINDOWS 8 is here. Millions of people. Your app in 30 days. Visit The Windows 8 Center at Sourceforge for all your go to resources. http://windows8center.sourceforge.net/ join-generation-app-and-make-money-coding-fast/ _______________________________________________ libusbx-devel mailing list libusbx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libusbx-devel
