On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 09:20:56PM +0100, Guido Draheim wrote: > Es schrieb John Poltorak: > > > > Is there any place I can search to find if an app has been succesfully > > built with autoconf+friends on a non-Unix platform? > > > > I'm thinking of trying to build Tar 1.13 and see refences to DOS but have > > no way of telling whether they are purely historical, (going back to the > > last millenium :-) ) or whether there is any likelihood of success > > nowadays. > > > To get it straight - you don't need to run windows to compile > a program for the win32 platform - use a crossgcc, for the > linux-to-mingw32 part you'll even find prepacked rpms, or just > build one yourself (e.g. on solaris) it isn't *that* complicated. > So, if you just want to have a win32 tar, you don't need to > leave a typical unix environemnt, and you are saved from > installling one for win32, in order to create a win32 binary. > > hope this sheds some light on it, > read the rest on at the mingw and cygwin pages, > and if there are problems with the resulting > binary, come back, and ask IN THE LIBTOOL mailinglist > since you SHOULD REALLY use libtool when trying to > mess with the win32 platform.
I don't really have any intention of messing with the Win32 platform. My target platform is OS/2, but my hope is that DOS filesystem issues such as drive letters, and path/dir seperators have been taken into account in the TAR source code so that I have a reasonable chance of getting it built straight out of the box. I guess that depends on whether TAR includes ifdefs for a DOS environment rather than Win32 or Cygwin. > cheers, > -- guido http://freespace.sf.net/guidod > GCS/E/S/P C++/++++$ ULHS L++w- N++@ d(+-) s+a- r+@>+++ y++ 5++X- (geekcode) > -- John
