On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 1:19 AM, Alon Bar-Lev <alon.bar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 1:05 AM, Athanasios Douitsis <aduit...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I was just thinking loudly, definitely not asking for someone to write it > > and replace the existing build process(es). Having said that, I'd like to > > clarify that what I meant is this would not be an additional dependency > on > > top of others, since neither cygwin nor msvc would be needed anymore. > > Anyway, not important, just a thought. > > Visual studio build is for compatibility for people who insist of using it. > > The "generic" build system is pure cross compile / native build system > for dependencies and openvpn. It compiles openvpn using a given > toolchain to any environment. > > For example, you can use it to compile at Linux for Linux on power pc > or to Linux on arm. > As a side effect you can also compile openvpn on Linux to windows using > mingw. > This exact same script without any modification can be used on Windows > in cygwin environment to cross compile to windows native. > > So at the larger picture the target is to maintain a single build > system for all environment... same dependencies, same utilities. > > Alon > Thanks for taking the time to explain! I'll be happy to provide as much feedback as possible on the windows native case with cygwin. Best regards, -- Athanasios Douitsis
