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

[Owen R. <ow...@ow...>]

> 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
> from a normal Windows command prompt, that might be more trouble - I'll
> have to get a Windows box up and running to test.

MinGW can be used from a normal Windows command prompt, but you can also get 
MSYS, which is a UNIX-like build environment for MinGW32.
 
> 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.

I imagine people will, yes. Maintaining them separately shouldn't be too much 
of a hassle, hopefully.

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