[Ecls-list] Rewriting autoconf -> autoconf/automake

[Erik Huelsmann]

On 11/14/07, Goffioul Michael <goffioul at imec.be> wrote:
> > On Nov 14, 2007, at 3:58 AM, Goffioul Michael wrote:
> >
> > > Would an autoconf/automake/libtool system support MSVC compiler?
> >
> > That's a good question.  All of my Windows users use cygwin
> > to build from what I know.
>
> AFAIK, the answer is no (that's why there are dedicated MSVC
> makefiles in current ECL source tree). I just wanted to point
> out that if there's a move to re-write the build system, maybe
> it's good to look at "portable" solutions that can work with
> non-gcc-like compilers.

Over at the Subversion project we have to support a wide range of
compiler/make solutions just as the ECL project has to. Our solution
is to have a file which describes the project structure. From that
file we generate makefiles on Unix (or cygwin), but when on Windows,
the translation program can also generate vc6 project files or vs2005
solution files.

Maybe that's an interesting option if you want to reduce Makefile maintenance?

bye,

Erik.