RE: newby question: to use or not to use ?

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Benoit SIGOURE <> wrote:
> On Jul 9, 2007, at 12:21 PM, Joao Miguel Ferreira wrote:
>> 
>> Hello Benoit, Baurzhan, Cristoph, ... all
>> 
>> Thanks a lot for your comments. I'm starting to test and use
>> Autotools in order to get a better inside knowledge.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> One more question: is there support for the VMS operating system ?
>> 
> 
> I think so.  (never used it though)
> 
>> 
>> My team must maitain code for Linux, HP-UX, Solaris.... and VMS....
>> and MS-Windows.... it's hard to have a clear mind when so many OSs
>> are involved... :-(
> 
> For Windows I hope you'll work with either Cygwin or MinGW because
> autoconf/automake/libtool don't directly support the Microsoft
> compiler (although it is possible to get it working with the
> autotools by hacking your build system a little bit with some
> wrappers such as cccl or WGCC).

Hi

You won't have to *hack* your build system ;o) Nearly everything can
stay the same
when using WGCC, only if you want shared libraries (haha) you need to
use
A patched libtool ;o) (patches available from
www.sf.net/projects/interix-wgcc)

Cool though, that somebody ever thinks of wgcc ;o)

P.S.: for the wgcc approach you'll need Interix (SFU or SUA depending on
your windows version)

Cheers, Markus

> I've been using the autotools for a couple of years now and I think
> this is the only real limitation I ran into.  Hopefully there are
> workarounds.
> 
> Cheers,


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