Chapter 24. Using GNU Autotools with Cygnus' Cygwin
The GNU Autotools enable users to build software packages on Windows. Because the tools were developed on Unix, it is easier to get them to work using Cygnus Solutions' Cygwin distribution, which provides a POSIX wrapper for the Win32 API (see Section 1.1, "The Diversity of Unix Systems" ), but it is certainly possible to run the tools within other Windows environments, notably Colin Peters' Mingw32 and D.J. Delorie's DJGPP . These development environments are freely available on the Internet on the Mingw32 home page (http://www.mingw.org ) and DJGPP home page (http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/ ). Unlike Cygwin, these other environments are designed for developing with the Win32 API directly, ...
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