Subject: Re: minimizing forks (was Re: commit -- removed unused directory in expat)
From: Thomas Briggs (tom@sane.com)
Date: Mon Feb 05 2001 - 13:41:36 CST
Were you building with the MSVC compiler or gcc?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dom Lachowicz" <cinamod@hotmail.com>
To: <sam@uchicago.edu>; <tom@sane.com>
Cc: <paul@abisource.com>; <abiword-dev@abisource.com>
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 2:32 PM
Subject: Re: minimizing forks (was Re: commit -- removed unused directory in
expat)
> >That's bad. I was under the distinct impression that it was possible
> >to use configure style build systems on Win32. I know autoconf runs
> >on them. In fact, they must work, since gcc builds on cygwin. Is the
> >problem with the compiler options?
>
> It is possible to do this, so long as configure.in adds a few lines to
> detect Cygwin. I've recently gotten wvWare to build on Win2k using
configure
> + cygwin. The only problem that I ran into was that the make that Cygwin
> ships with wasn't recursive :)
>
> Try adding lines like this to the expat configure.in and then re-run
> autoconf (see wv/configure.in for more details):
>
> # Tests for Windows
> AC_CYGWIN
> AC_EXEEXT
> AC_OBJEXT
> AC_MINGW32
> # End Tests for Windows
>
> So long as everything in the makefile uses $(OBJEXT) and $(EXEEXT) instead
> of like .obj and .exe (or .o and nothing in Unix-land) you'll be fine. If
> not, it's not that much of a pain to do so.
>
> Dom
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