[Chandler-dev] Re: build on feisty

[Robin Dunn]

Heikki Toivonen wrote:

>> On Windows: use ours
> 
> Currently there is no reason it has to be so, as we use the same
> compiler that official Windows Python was compiled with. So we could
> make configure detect Windows Python etc. and have it use that if
> available.

Unless there have been major changes in the past few years I don't think 
autoconf is usable on Windows unless you are using the cygwin or mingw 
compilers.  When it is doing checks for availability of libs or specific 
symbols it actually makes a small C or C++ file and tries to compile and 
link it.  The MSVC command-line options are just too different for it to 
be able to do the same thing without a ton of work.  Also, even if that 
hurdle were bypassed somehow there are no standards for where libs or 
headers or packages will be installed, so configure would have no idea 
where to look for them.

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