Piotr Dobrogost wrote: > > You just have to install Mingw or Cygwin on Windows, and then you can > > use the ./configure scripts etc. with Visual Studio as the compiler. > > I think neither MinGW nor Cygwin can be called just a tool. Their are > rather big systems on their own and forcing someone to install such a > thing only to compile curl under Windows is not acceptable IMO. > > Maybe there is some small subset of any of them which allows to use > auto* tools under Windows?
I think you might only need the MSYS component of the Mingw project. That provides the shell and basic shell tools (grep, sed etc.), which is all you need to run ./configure. MSYS is not particularly large. -- Jamie
