I've never used automake before (I don't do much in the way of programming) but I noticed that version 1.9.4 is available here:
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/automake.htm The website says: The GnuWin32 project provides Win32-versions of GNU tools, or tools with a similar open source licence. The ports are native ports, that is they rely only on libraries provided with any standard 32-bits MS-Windows operating system, such as MS-Windows 95 / 98 / ME / NT / 2000 / XP. Native ports do not rely on some kind of Unix emulation, such as CygWin or Msys, so that there is no need to install additional emulation libraries. At present, all developments have been done under MS-Windows 98 and XP, using the Mingw port of the GNU C and C++ (GCC) compilers.
