Re: detecting windows

[Werner LEMBERG]

>> is there an autoconf macro to detect MS Windows?
> 
> Is that a joke?  The trouble is, that autoconf requires a shell and
> M4, which Windows doesn't provide (only in Cygwin). So MS Windows is
> detected when autoconf/configure does not run...

Very witty :-) No, it's not a joke.  I don't want to detect the
compiler or the build environment, but I want a macro which detects
the Windows GUI abilities, similar to macro which detects the
availability of X11, regardless of the platform.


    Werner