Re: autoconf in pure MSVC environment?

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Bruce Korb wrote:
> > I realize that Microsoft has made the cross-platform build problem
> > gratuitously hard, having dropped support for automatic Makefile
> > generation as of VS7.  But UNIXen aren't any better.
>
> Please explain to me carefully why I should put a lot of effort into
> generating undocumented .sln files for a platform that I do not use,
> when there is nobody paying me to do so?  It is true that "automake"
> is completely wound up in emitting code for "make", but where is there
> an engine for emitting ".sln" files that can be readily bolted to some-
> thing that emits Makefile.am's?  Am I hearing you volunteering?

What version .sln files?  With version 7.0 MS introduced an XML file 
format.  Sounds good, right?  Apparently not since the XML file format 
was significantly overhauled/modified for 7.1.

Meanwhile 'make' continues to function as always. :-)

Bob
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