On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Piotr Dobrogost <[email protected]> wrote: > Michael Wood wrote: > >> is so big. It sort of seems like there is something wrong when your >> build system is an order of magnitude bigger than the thing you're >> building.) > > I see your point. > However I wouldn't compare the size of the build system with the size of > the project being built with it. The former could be very advanced and > flexible making it rather big in size whereas the latter can be any > size. The problem is there's no good build system (actually no build > system at all) _preinstalled_ with the system under Windows. This makes > installing some build system on this platform necessary. In this case > the size of it is not so important.
Yes, I was talking about replacing autotools on Linux there. I agree that you need to install something on Windows, unless you stick with the nmake makefiles for which support is already there if you're using the MS toolchain. -- Michael Wood <[email protected]>
