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Re: Is gnulib supposed to support Visual Studio builds?
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Bruno Haible |
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Re: Is gnulib supposed to support Visual Studio builds? |
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Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:58:01 +0100 |
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Daniel Schepler wrote:
> > 3) Use a configuration statement like this:
> > ...
> OK, thanks for the pointers. Is this documented somewhere in gnulib or
> perhaps in autoconf/automake?
It is not yet documented, because the support in gnulib is pretty recent
and the support in libtool is work-in-progress. Please let us know how
it works for you. Ultimately, these things should be documented in the
INSTALL file, which comes from Autoconf's documentation.
> Btw, should that be --build=i686-w64-mingw32 instead since I'm not cross-
> compiling?
It is important to pass the right --host option. Passing a --build option
is often not needed. Whether you specify i586-pc-mingw32 or
i686-w64-mingw32 does not matter, since you don't want to use GNU
cross-compiling tools with these prefixes.
> That reflects what we already do for zlib -- although I guess zlib's license
is
> BSD-style. On the other hand, the sources take only about 1.6 MB
uncompressed
> and 300 KB compressed last I checked, which wouldn't add much to the current
> size. So maybe it would be easier just to include lib/gnulib/src.
Gnulib sources change frequently, more frequently than zlib probably.
See also
<http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/VCS-Issues.html>.
> Maybe we should double check whether MacOS X supports glob.
Sure it does.
Bruno