"Stephen J Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The configure script does rely on some UNIX tools like "sed" - so
> to use this scheme under Windoze, you need the CygWin tools - or
> something similar. In practice, people who don't have the CygWin
> tools tend to be people. who are using Borland or MSVC - and those
> people typically don't even have 'make' and will need odd-ball
> 'project' files that have to be built the hard way whatever you do.
Actually all Win32 and DOS compilers include versions of make native
to that compiler. Borland ships make.exe and Microsoft ships
nmake.exe. Most are pretty much compatible with Unix tools, so long
as you don't try to do stuff in the makefiles themselves that are
unix shell specific (such as for loops etc over directories). However
I don't think it will be very easy to get those tools working under a
non-Unix shell with VC etc (however if you has bash running on Win32
you could compile with Borland and Microsoft using the Unix tools).
Hence I expect makefiles for Borland and Microsoft will need to be
done manually (you can do project files also, but I much prefer
makefiles for those compilers; project files are a nightmare to
maintain across compiler versions).
> I guess there could also be a problem for MacOS users - I don't
> know how their systems work in this regard.
The MacOS does not have a command line build process as far as I am
aware, and hence no make program. I believe all MacOS tools are IDE
hosted (at least that was my experience in the past).
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