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Autotools
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Autotools

by John Calcote
July 2010
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
360 pages
11h 12m
English
No Starch Press
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When Should You Not Use the Autotools?

About the only time it makes sense not to use the Autotools is when you're writing software that will only run on non-Unix platforms, such as Microsoft Windows. Although the Autotools have limited support for building Windows software, it's my opinion that the POSIX/FHS runtime environment embraced by these tools is just too different from the Windows runtime environment to warrant trying to shoehorn a Windows project into the Autotools paradigm.

Autotools support for Windows requires a Cygwin[2] or MSYS[3] environment in order to work correctly, because Autoconf-generated configuration scripts are Bourne-shell scripts, and Windows doesn't provide a native Bourne shell. Unix and Microsoft tools are just different ...

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