"Jeffrey B. Siegal" wrote:
>
> "Kevin P. Lawton" wrote:
> > The other issue that comes up, is how to ./configure the source
> > so it can be compiled in Win32/MSVC++ land.
>
> People can run configure under Cygwin with the appropriate -- options
> (specified in an INSTALL.W32 file). Or you can just deliver a
> pre-./configure-ed makefile for Microsoft nmake. We do both for an open
> source package we maintain which has to be portable to Windows.
Yes, I like these options. Otherwise we have to duplicate the
whole functionality of configure and the Makefile tree.
This lets us standardize on configure. I do a similar thing
with bochs. You have to configure on a supported platform,
then use MS NMAKE.
-Kevin
