RE: How many packages use autotools?

[Grzegorz Jakacki]

On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Joseph D. Wagner wrote:

> > I use Autotools only on *NIX, I would expect that the view is different
> > when you look through the Windows.
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> Nobody uses autoconf on Windows.  On Windows, people use Microsoft
> Installer or InstallShield.  Autoconf is exclusively for UNIX variants
> (Linux, *BSD, Solaris, SCO UNIX, AIX, etc.)

We do not ship with 'configure' script, we use Autotools only internally
for building. This is orthogonal to how you create the binary installer.
Why shouldn't I use my existing Autotools-based infrastructure if I wanted
to build on Windows?

BR
Grzegorz

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