Subject: Re: ./autogen.sh on Windows
From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Jun 19 2001 - 12:46:16 CDT
Frodo Looijaard wrote:
>
> 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?
It certainly did try to use gcc. Which made me surprised that
__attribute__ was an error. Without autoconf et al it uses
MSVC.
> > 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).
gcc works beautifully on Windows as far as I am aware. I've heard
that one problem is a resource compiler. But I'd still prefer to
use gcc for code and MS's resource compiler only. In a perfect
world we would also be able to use Borland's compiler - especially
since there are freely downloadable versions now.
I only have MSVC because I've been a professional Windows programmer
on occasion. But I'm not a Windows man either. I am impressed with
Windows 2000's and Word's multilingual capabilities which is why
I'm working hard on a free competitor.
CygWin/gcc is a good stepping stone between Windows and Linux
and so is AbiWord. I hope they can become a team (:
Andrew.
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