[Dotgnu-pnet] Re: Re: [Dotgnu-libjit] Help needed to collect intructions about how to build libJIT for Windows XP, Windows Vista platform, and Visual Studio <\eom>

[jan]

> > Basically I think of something like a 'setup.exe', and a libjit.dll,
> > which might be used from Visual Studio.
>
> I had an idea about a cross-platform program using libjit, but i
noticed
> libjit uses autotools which imo can't easily be used within Visual
Studio (or
> nmake). I had in mind to switch the build tool (at least for me) to
cmake
> (KDE4 has some nice sciripts for switching) which makes it easy to
compile on
> linux and windows (and some more). But these plans are stopped right
now due
> to time issues.
> But as Jan said, I can recommend using NSIS for building a setup.exe

If you intend to use MSVC under Windows, you can use cmake to create
compiler independent build scripts. However I think there will be many
compatibility issues compiling libJIT with MSVC because the language is
incompatible with GCC.
I use GCC/MinGW for cross-platform development (GNU/Linux and Win32) of
software which currently links with libJIT, Ruby, fftw3, OpenEXR,
pthreads, ... . Moreover MinGW can link against MSVC libraries (not
MSVC++ though) if you need that.