Re: How many packages use autotools?

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Joseph D. Wagner wrote:
> > I use Autotools only on *NIX, I would expect that the view is different
> > when you look through the Windows.
>
>
> 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.)

I do. I use automake + autoconf + libtool + autoqt + cccl to build 
applications with MSVC++ and commercial Qt toolkit. Much easier to deal 
with than VC++ project files in CVS. I'm still looking at picking some 
scriptable installer, that I could use straight from my Makefile.am.

cheers,
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