From: Dr S N Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

drh> Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:
drh> > 
[...]
drh> > Is there any reason for this?  If not, I'll work on unifying this (not
drh> > immediately, however).
drh> > 
drh> 
drh> No reason at all.

Good to know...

drh> Now I come to think of it a lot of that stuff could be unified or
drh> called directly from the Configure script and do things in a more
drh> standard way such as writing the Windows makefile to "Makefile"
drh> at the top level like all the others. Then you could do something
drh> like:
drh> 
drh> perl Configure VC-WIN32
drh> nmake
drh> 
drh> and it would work or say...
drh> 
drh> perl Configure VC-WIN32-debug
drh> nmake

Exactly what I was thinking.  This would also leave room for building
different variants of the libraries as well (debug, non-debug,
threaded, non-threaded), which might solve the problems that many have
encountered...

drh> On the subject of Windows builds I had this idea of generating
drh> VC++ workspaces automagically by getting a perl script to get dev
drh> studio to create one of the beasts using OLE. This is left as an
drh> exercise to the reader :-)

Sounds like something Andrew Gray might want to do :-)

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