On Tuesday 15 May 2001 10:00 pm, Bruce Korb wrote:
> > > "Wont be able to develop ... libtool *ON WINDOWS* any more."
> >
> > So you're agreeing that the generated ltmain.in must support
> > Cygwin at least as well as the current release?
>
> Of course.
Okay. False alarm then =)O|
> > (wait a minute, thats not exactly what I
> > meant, since the Cygwin port is broken at the moment :-/)
>
> "at least" means it may be better :-)
:-D :-D
> Please note: there are several issues being conflated into
> one thread.
>
> 1. Will libtool run on Windows? Emphatically, as well as it
> does now. Nothing will happen that will break that.
1.5. Will it be possible to libtoolize on Windows? I see that the
answer to this too can only be: Yes!
> 2. Can you do development for the libtool project under Windows?
> It depends. :-)
>
> Assuming that rumors are true that it is possible to get a
> minimal Guile running on windows, then you can.
I have been wanting to try this for literally months. I hope to get around
to it real soon now.
> We have to avoid using features in our code that are not available on
> WinNT.
Do we have a definitive list (beyond the pointers you listed already) of
stuff to avoid, or is this to be determined empirically (and advance my
cygwin/guile TODO item)?
> (Forget Win3.1 or DOS. No way, no how.)
Hmm? Win3.1? Wassat? ;-)
Cheers,
Gary.
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