Hi Ralf, I think this is a great idea and would be interested in hearing your plans for moving forward. I've invested a lot of time in an autotools build system that works on *nix and mingw (and cross-compiling to mingw from linux!) and I do think this would be interesting to see this work on mingw shell with MSVC's build system, as you propose.
Although, to be honest, I have recently been taking another look at other build systems such as cmake, which does generate full MSVC-native project files, which is very attractive. I'm sure this is heresay, but I'll at least voice my interest in a dream solution: autotools with Visual Studio project file generation. A related, possibly basic question: if mingw's gcc builds msvc-compatible DLLs, etc, what do people see as the benefit to using a mingw/sh-driven MSVC build? -Natalie On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Ralf Wildenhues <ralf.wildenh...@gmx.de> wrote: > * Philip Herron wrote on Sun, Aug 01, 2010 at 08:05:50PM CEST: >> This sounds amazing on one of my other projects i support a cmake >> build along side my autoconf and automake for everything that isn't >> windows lol. > > So let me rephrase the question: if we have the ability to build > completely with MSVC within a shell environment such as MinGW/MSYS > would people still need something like nmake support? > > With git versions of Automake and Libtool, we are actually quite close > to the former. > > Thanks, > Ralf > >