Piotr Dobrogost wrote:
> > You just have to install Mingw or Cygwin on Windows, and then you can
> > use the ./configure scripts etc. with Visual Studio as the compiler.
>
> I think neither MinGW nor Cygwin can be called just a tool. Their are
> rather big systems on their own and forcing someone to install such a
> thing only to compile curl under Windows is not acceptable IMO.
>
> Maybe there is some small subset of any of them which allows to use
> auto* tools under Windows?

I think you might only need the MSYS component of the Mingw project.
That provides the shell and basic shell tools (grep, sed etc.), which
is all you need to run ./configure. MSYS is not particularly large.

-- Jamie
Received on 2009-03-29