On Wed, 15 Apr 2009, Matt Campbell wrote:
1. SCons can use native tools on both Unix and Windows. No Unix
emulation layer is required on Windows. The more I develop under
Windows, the more I understand how different the two systems are, and
the more I want to avoid trying to emulate Unix on
Peter Åstrand wrote:
You keep saying that, but I don't understand why. I just tried
installing MinGW + MSYS + MSYS DTK on my Vista machine and now I have
the full Autotools toolchain, without Cygwin. The installation only
took a few minutes.
Hmmm... OK, so apparently I was missing the DTK
I think it should also be pointed out that upstream Xorg uses autotools, and
we're tracking their stuff more closely these days.
I hate autotools as much as anyone else, but unfortunately I think we're stuck
with it.
Regards,
George
On Thursday 16 April 2009 08:05:59 Peter Åstrand wrote:
On
Adam Tkac wrote:
I don't think it is a good idea. Autotools might look quite strange
but they are widely used and it is known that they work fine on vast
majority of systems. You are right that compilation of Win executables
might be quite hard but if you get MinGW working it's not problem.
