On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 2:54 PM, David Bremner <david at tethera.net> wrote: > Claudio Bley <claudio.bley at googlemail.com> writes: > >> I wanted to use notmuch on MS Windows and thus have ported the code to >> be able to compile with MinGW and MSYS using the GNU autotools on that >> platform. > > Do you really need autotools, or was it just the easiest path to get > things working on w32?
No, you don't. I've compiled many things for Windows using MinGW, and you don't need autotools. In fact, autotools makes things worst (as usual), by requiring m4, perl, and bunch of heavy dependencies. % make CROSS_COMPILE=i486-mingw32- -- Felipe Contreras
