Sounds like a reasonable project. I'd say go for the single file to start
with.
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Mark Miesfeld
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 6:24 AM, Rick McGuire <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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