Re: Gnulib on Windows (native / mingw32) / VMS / etc.

[Paul Eggert]

Except for VMS, GNU Emacs is in a boat similar to GNU Make. It uses 
Gnulib (but not Automake), it is buildable on MS-Windows and does not 
need Cygwin, it has its own configuration batch script for MS-Windows 
(and MS-DOS!). So I would look to Emacs for inspiration here. I'm mostly 
responsible for the Emacs Gnulib usage and can help and/or answer 
questions in this area.

Gnulib does have some VMS support but it's on an as-needed basis, and 
quite possibly you'd need to hack it in (this was most recently done for 
mktime in September). As it happens, in August we removed some VMS code 
from the glob module, since nobody had used it for years and glibc was 
removing it. I suppose we could put it back in. Alternatively, GNU Make 
could continue to use the old glob.c for VMS, and use Gnulib glob.c for 
everything else. (Not ideal, I know.)