Re: [Moose-g3-devel] Collaboration Tools, auto config

[Josef S. <js...@ya...>]

--- Greg Hood <gh...@ps...> wrote:
> 
> I agree that configure is badly needed.  I am familiar with autoconf and
> have written configure scripts before, so I might be able to contribute
> to this.  Had anyone else already planned on writing a configure script
> for MOOSE?   As far as Windows goes, I would favor a development environment
> that is based on the Cygwin tools (which will give us autoconf, make, etc.).
> with the understanding that the final executable should not require the
> user to have Cygwin installed.
> --Greg

In theory (meaning I've never tried it), you don't have to install Cygwin to
use the autoconf tools. See
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/autoconf.htm It just needs perl and
msvcrt.dll (MS Visual C++ runtime library - think you'd be hard-pressed to find
a windows system without this installed!). Autoconf on *nix generates _shell_
scripts. If windows needs a shell to run, you might be able to use
http://win-bash.sourceforge.net/

(in response to Upi's off-list comments, but applicable here)
IMHO, it's NEVER too early to start using this kind of tool. The time it will
save every developer will quickly dwarf any time spent ramping up.

joe


js...@ya...
Software Engineer
Linux/OSX C/C++/Java