Re: [openttd-devel] Well... where to begin?

[Robert N. <ro...@ca...>]

On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 11:20:23AM +0000, Owen Rudge wrote:
> > To start, I want a real full port of TTD for Unix. Yes, I know the code
> > works. I want to get it setup so it looks like a Unix app too, and
> > integrates with the system properly. At the moment, this means an
> > Autotools-based build system, and switching to gettext for i18n stuff.
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> If you could also make the autotools-based system work for MinGW too (and
> perhaps the like of Cygwin?), it would be useful, as we wouldn't have to
> maintain separate makefiles for the two.

My understanding is that to build an autotools package, you need a basic
Unix shell environment. Cygwin is fine for this. Using the MinGW
toolchain from Cygwin shouldn't be an issue either. If MinGW can be used
=66rom a normal Windows command prompt, that might be more trouble - I'll
have to get a Windows box up and running to test.

FYI, I've got the basic build system up and running. Still got a little
work to do to get all the stdafx.h stuff in, but its there.

One question - are people (still) going to be using VC++ to build this
thing? If so, I think that VC++ project files will have to be maintained
seperately.

Rob.

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