I've not liked the lack of dependency management in the makefiles used for
building Windows for quite a while. David spent quite a bit of time trying
to get a Windows build working with autoconf and never really got things
working. I'm sort of thinking we might be able to do this as a manual
process by taking the Makefile generated for Linux and manually converting
it into a Windows makefile. At first glance, this doesn't really look to
be that bad. There are a lot of changes to make, but mostly of the
repetitive variety. Once converted, we'll have a make file with all of the
dependencies created. This will still need to manually updated in the
future, but we'll have a make file that operates better than the one we're
using now (which for all intents, is 25 years old). Hopefully, we'll be
able to keep this skewing too much from the autoconf generated one. It
might even be an interesting exercise to write a tool to sync the
dependencies up again. Left as a exercise to the reader! I'm willing to
take a crack at converting to see if this is workable.
The autoconf generated make file builds all of the project from the single
makefile, while on Windows, we have separate makefiles for each of the
subprojects (e.g., various extensions like rxsock, rxmath, etc.). I can go
either way on the port, though I suspect as a first step, I'll create a
combined make. Note that this will not cover the Windows-only extensions
because the Linux Makefile does not have anything generated for those
directories. Any opinions on the single file/multiple file question?
Rick
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