2013/1/6 Kai Tietz <[email protected]>
> 2013/1/6 Ruben Van Boxem <[email protected]>:
> > Op 6 jan. 2013 02:21 schreef "JonY" <[email protected]> het
> > volgende:
> >
> >
> >>
> >> On 1/6/2013 05:49, K. Frank wrote:
> >> > I don't currently have msys or a unix emulator set up. So the
> >> > suggestion to try out the configure script "just to see" involves
> >> > a little more work than just trying it out.
> >> >
> >>
> >> Feels handicapped.
> >>
> >> > To Ruben's comment: Is there some way I can check whether
> >> > the configure script claims to support mingw? Should I expect
> >> > the character string for the host (e.g., "i686-w64-mingw32") to
> >> > reside somewhere in the script itself? Is there some "database"
> >> > file of supported hosts used by the scripts that I could search
> >> > for variations of "mingw"? I'd like to have some expectation that
> >> > the configure script supports mingw before I go hunt down a
> >> > linux system or unix emulator.
> >> >
> >>
> >> It is always there, all configure scripts will check for all known
> >> platforms, whether it will actually work depends on how it was written.
> >> Since you don't have much experience in autotools, your best bet is to
> >> just run it and see what happens.
> >>
> >> > As for Peter's suggestion, I will check out CodeLite. If it doesn't
> >> > look too painful, I'll try translating the solutions file into a
> >> > makefile.
> >> > I'm thinking (perhaps wrongly) that if I start with the unix configure
> >> > script, I'll be more likely to get bumped over into unix-style,
> pthreads
> >> > and posix sockets land, where if I start on the visual studio side, I
> >> > might be more likely to end up with windows threading and winsock.
> >> > (Just a hope.)
> >>
> >> Ugh, that was painful to read. What part of configure implies pthreads
> >> and posix sockets? GCC source too has configure, does it make pthread a
> >> requirement? No.
> >
> > Well, think about what you're saying... GCC autotools have a bunch of
> checks
> > for mingw that make the build use windows specific sources. There's
> bound to
> > be some Unix specific and windows specific source files in QuickFix. If
> the
> > autotools wasn't written with that in mind, you're screwed. Autotools
> isn't
> > a one stop ticket to a full cross-platform build without some
> modification.
> > Take off your pink glasses, autotools isn't the holy grail. He might well
> > run into the wrong source files (and thus Unix stuff like sockets and
> > pthreads) being used in the autotools build.
> >
> > Ruben
>
> Hmm, what in hell has any build-environment to do with venture
> specific target-files? Any good build-environment provides the ability
> to the programmer to specify special-case sources, allow
> cross-compilation configure OOTB, providing features to check and test
> for runtime-environment features, etc. So in any case you need to
> port venture's source and build-environment to a specific target
> manually.
> So the question is not that much *which* build-environment you shall
> choose, it is more *what* environment is required for my needs. For
> example, if I want that my venture can be built on cmd on Windows -
> maybe even with VC - then I should choose a build-environment
> supporting that best (like CMake). If I want to built mainly on
> POSIX-environments, or want the ability of cross-compilation then
> autotools might be a good choice.
>
That was kind of my point :) Thanks for exemplifying it a bit more (my
communication sometimes lacks in clarity)
Ruben
>
> Kai
>
>
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