Subject: Re: ./autogen.sh on Windows
From: Frodo Looijaard (frodol@dds.nl)
Date: Tue Jun 19 2001 - 12:35:08 CDT
Andrew Dunbar wrote:
>
> I was about to try that but I was sure some GNUMakefiles were in CVS
> and may even have some of them with my changes in them. Thanks to Pat,
> make realclean did the trick.
Nope, none of them are. GNUmakefile.am files are in CVS, autogen.sh makes
GNUmakefile.in files of them, and configure turns them into plain
GNUmakefile files.
> > By the way, what exactly does not work after an autoconf?
>
> Quite a few things. If I wasn't out of harddrive space I'd
> keep a 2nd tree just to see if we can get this working on Windows.
> I recall it complaining about __attribute__ keywords in I think
> wv, some parts had definitely assumed the OS was Unix...
I presume you used MSVC to build it? Or did it try to use gcc?
> I do hope we can get this working sooner or later. People should
> not have to require MSVC to build AbiWord ):
I have been out of touch for a few months, so I am not quite sure
what the status of MSVC vs. gcc is. I am afraid this is a FAQ,
but is there any inherent reason why gcc would not be good enough to
build AbiWord on Windows, and why we would need MSVC? I suspect there
are some libraries in MSVC we need? I don't have MSVC and I won't buy
it, but I might give gcc/cygwin a try (I am not a Windows man, but
still).
Thanks,
Frodo
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