Re: [Oorexx-devel] Pondering redoing the Windows build process

2014-04-21 Thread René Jansen
and I read that it can generate standard makefiles ... so that might also help. René. On 21 apr. 2014, at 18:28, David Ashley wrote: > It is available for > > Linux x86 > Mac OSX > Windows > AIX > IRIX > > Most Linux distribution provide via their repositories. The source is > also available

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Pondering redoing the Windows build process

2014-04-21 Thread René Jansen
just installed it on Linux-ARM (Raspbian) via apt-get install cmake, works fine. Someone should check z/Linux. René. On 21 apr. 2014, at 18:28, David Ashley wrote: > It is available for > > Linux x86 > Mac OSX > Windows > AIX > IRIX > > Most Linux distribution provide via their repositories.

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Pondering redoing the Windows build process

2014-04-21 Thread Rick McGuire
Sounds doable to me. Rick On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 12:28 PM, David Ashley wrote: > It is available for > > Linux x86 > Mac OSX > Windows > AIX > IRIX > > Most Linux distribution provide via their repositories. The source is > also available for building it on other platforms. > > David Ashley >

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Pondering redoing the Windows build process

2014-04-21 Thread David Ashley
It is available for Linux x86 Mac OSX Windows AIX IRIX Most Linux distribution provide via their repositories. The source is also available for building it on other platforms. David Ashley On Mon, 2014-04-21 at 12:16 -0400, Rick McGuire wrote: > I certainly have no particular ties to autotools.

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Pondering redoing the Windows build process

2014-04-21 Thread Rick McGuire
I certainly have no particular ties to autotools. My only reservations about switching to something else would be to ensure it is ubiquitous enough. For example, would cmake be available for environments such as z-linux or AIX? Rick On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 12:11 PM, David Ashley wrote: > Ok,

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Pondering redoing the Windows build process

2014-04-21 Thread David Ashley
Ok, new train of thought, same subject. What about eliminating aototools completely? There are other, more portable build environments available these days. CMake springs to mind immediately. It is a lot easier to use, portable across multiple environment including Windows and Linux, and can maint

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Pondering redoing the Windows build process

2014-04-21 Thread David Ashley
I fully agree with Rick. We need to find a way to use the MS tools natively under autotools/Cygwin. I also agree the checking in the final makefile to SVN would be a good idea. There might be a problem with that because the autotools automake app generates code for the standard make utility, not th

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Pondering redoing the Windows build process

2014-04-21 Thread Michael Lueck
Greetings Rick, Rick McGuire wrote: > The only thing that we really want to change is the maintenance of the > makefile. Thank you for clarification. I was interested that would it become possible to build ooRexx for Windows without having a copy of MS C++ handy. I am thankful, -- Michael L

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Pondering redoing the Windows build process

2014-04-21 Thread Rick McGuire
No, the build will still need to be done us MS tools. The only thing that we really want to change is the maintenance of the makefile. Rick On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 10:40 AM, Michael Lueck wrote: > David Ashley wrote: > > Of course, the primary problem with using autotools is that Cygwin is a

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Pondering redoing the Windows build process

2014-04-21 Thread Michael Lueck
David Ashley wrote: > Of course, the primary problem with using autotools is that Cygwin is a > prerequisite. Is there no native port of autotools to Windows, corresponding/similar to SourceForge projects: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/ or http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? Are you proposing

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Pondering redoing the Windows build process

2014-04-21 Thread Rick McGuire
I'd love to have a single source too. Perhaps we could checkin the autogenerated Windows version so that cygwin is only required for people who actually make changes to the makefiles. Rick On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 10:33 AM, David Ashley wrote: > I would like to give the autotools on Windows ano

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Pondering redoing the Windows build process

2014-04-21 Thread David Ashley
I would like to give the autotools on Windows another try. The last time I did this I was still struggling with getting to know the autotools family of apps so I ran into some roadblocks I did not have enough knowledge to resolve. Since then I have gained enough experience that I think I can overco

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Pondering redoing the Windows build process

2014-04-21 Thread Mark Miesfeld
Sounds like a reasonable project. I'd say go for the single file to start with. -- Mark Miesfeld On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 6:24 AM, Rick McGuire 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

[Oorexx-devel] Pondering redoing the Windows build process

2014-04-21 Thread Rick McGuire
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 proc