On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 11:34 PM, Piotr Dobrogost <[email protected]> wrote: > Pierre Joye wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Piotr Dobrogost <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Guenter wrote: >>> >>>> you can use MSYS standalone with other compilers, f.e. I used MSYS >>>> already with a NetWare cross-gcc which runs on Win32 just to use the >>>> auto-magic... >>> That's what I had in mind. Using auto* tools under Windows to create >>> nmake and other makefiles. >> >> That would be yet another nightmare to maintain and noone really >> wants to feel this pain :) >> >> Cheers, > > Why do you think so? > There is no problem with using auto* tools on systems supporting them, > now. Right? > > The idea is to use the same tools and make use of existing knowledge for > yet another platform - this time Windows. And to use auto* tools under > Windows we need MSYS installed.
Do you really think that adding VC++ support to auto* tools is that easy in comparison to either CMake or the (simple but working too) nmake makefiles? It is not, it is a major pain. Cheers, -- Pierre http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org
