Re: Is gnulib supposed to support Visual Studio builds?

[Bruno Haible]

Daniel Schepler wrote:
> >   3) Use a configuration statement like this:
> > ...
> OK, thanks for the pointers.  Is this documented somewhere in gnulib or 
> perhaps in autoconf/automake?

It is not yet documented, because the support in gnulib is pretty recent
and the support in libtool is work-in-progress. Please let us know how
it works for you. Ultimately, these things should be documented in the
INSTALL file, which comes from Autoconf's documentation.

> Btw, should that be --build=i686-w64-mingw32 instead since I'm not cross-
> compiling?

It is important to pass the right --host option. Passing a --build option
is often not needed. Whether you specify i586-pc-mingw32 or
i686-w64-mingw32 does not matter, since you don't want to use GNU
cross-compiling tools with these prefixes.

> That reflects what we already do for zlib -- although I guess zlib's license 
is 
> BSD-style.  On the other hand, the sources take only about 1.6 MB 
uncompressed 
> and 300 KB compressed last I checked, which wouldn't add much to the current 
> size.  So maybe it would be easier just to include lib/gnulib/src.

Gnulib sources change frequently, more frequently than zlib probably.
See also
<http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/VCS-Issues.html>.

> Maybe we should double check whether MacOS X supports glob.

Sure it does.

Bruno