On 2:48:02 pm 2005-04-28 "Paul D. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> %% Jerker BÃck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> jb> ??? You mean to make an empty "dummy" unistd.h for Windows
> jb> machines in w32/include or create a custom windows unistd.h?
> Your jb> great suggestion of using "HAVE_STDLIB" instead of all
> these #if jb> defined(...) is enough, I think, at least for the MS
> jb> compiler.
>
> For the MS compiler maybe. But that's not the model that GNU autoconf
> uses. They don't test for platforms, they test for individual
> features. In the UNIX world it's quite possible to have a system
> where getenv() is there, but not strerror(), etc. so a single #define
> for "STDLIB" is not expressive enough.
>
Which is why I created MSYS. MSYS provides a minimal system to execute
configure for a native target. The default target is MINGW32 but that can
be changed if desired by simply defining an environment variable.
Earnie
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