RE: How many packages use autotools?

[Joseph D. Wagner]

It's not that you shouldn't use it on Windows.  It's just that nobody does use 
it on Windows.  If you do use it on Windows, you'll be the first I've ever 
heard of someone using autoconf on Windows.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Grzegorz Jakacki [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 12:15 AM
> To: Joseph D. Wagner
> Cc: GNU Autoconf
> Subject: RE: How many packages use autotools?
> 
> On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Joseph D. Wagner wrote:
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> > > 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.)
> 
> 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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