Gregory Stark wrote:
>
> We could use autoconf on win32 using cygwin utilities for things like sh and
> awk. Just because we use those tools doesn't mean we have to use a cygwin
> compiler or linker to actually do the build.
>
Making Cygwin a build time requirement for using MSVC is something we
seriously wish to avoid.
> And we could always ship the preconfigured pg_config.h from a normal Windows
> machine with cygwin installed since they're all the same (in theory).
>
> I think it has more to do with the build-time tools. We have Makefile rules
> that use awk or sed in them and those wouldn't work unless you have cygwin
> installed when building. And in any case we want to use MSVC project files and
> MSVC's make-equivalent to actually drive the build which kind of rules out
> using the Makefile rules as-is.
>
>
Quite so. CMake outputs MSVC Project files, as I understand it. If you
know of another cross-platform build tool that will do that then speak up.
cheers
andrew
