On 13-Sep-10, at 3:14 PM, Peter Stuge wrote:
Toby Thain wrote:
So we have stuff for VC6, VS2005, VS2008, DDK/WDK, MinGW and
Cygwin. :)
I consider diversity of working build environments a net benefit to
the project. It's another useful axis of portability and helps rub
off non-portable burrs.
I see your point and I agree in part, but personally I would e.g.
prefer to ignore VC6, since it requires a fair amount source code
workarounds because it's *so* old.
Also, someone needs to maintain these build methods, and I wish
people didn't have to spend time on that part so much.
autotools is absolutely alien in Windows, and to be honest a bit
of a hassle to set up if you're already a VS wizard.
NMAKE is convenient for Windows builds as it will also happily run
under Linux/WINE, targeting both 32 and 64 bit Windows runtimes with
the 'freely downloadable' Express toolchain. It may even be possible
to combine autotools with the Microsoft compiler, though I haven't
tried it (CC="wine cl", etc).
Maybe it works for cross-compiling, but then MinGW(-w64) will be way
better tested so why bother,
Actually I moved OFF mingw32 (which I did use for years), because I
saw some dubious and hard to diagnose runtime failures. These seem to
have disappeared from builds made with Microsoft toolchain. I haven't
tried recent mingw, though.
when for people on Windows it's no real
help, they want the GUI stuff. Also, being a library, there are some
more build options like e.g. enable debugging or not. This is
typically a separate target in VS but only a configure switch with
autotools, and while this case is easy enough, I don't think those
targets scale so well..
Personally I'm missing a way to do some build-time scripting also on
Windows.
NMAKE works ok for my purposes. Have you tried that?
--Toby
The best idea I've come up with so far is a .cmd which does
some of what autoconf does, e.g. "sed" version number from
configure.ac into .rc files and create a config.h, but that doesn't
mean it's a very good idea. :\
//Peter
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