[Box Backup-dev] Win32

[Chris Wilson]

Hi Charles,

> Thanks - that's got me a bit further. Now I just get a few redefinition
> warnings (easy enough to solve - they obviously pre-date the autoconf
> work), and one missing autogen_CommonException.h.
>
> Is it the intention that Perl is required to build boxbackup?  I think
> that's entirely reasonable for any *nix, but I'm not convinced it's a
> good idea for Windows.

It always used to be the case, but with autoconf, far more is required - a 
Bash-like shell and some other Posix tools. Nick's win32.bat used to work 
around the need to run configure, by running Perl to generate the autogen 
code, and using Visual Studio project files rather than Makefiles to build 
the project. I don't know if it still works.

How about if someone runs a script to regularly autogenerate and configure 
the trunk for Win32 (on a *nix box) and posts tarballs that Windows users 
can download?

By the way, you also need Perl to compile OpenSSL, on which Box Backup 
depends. This could be worked around in a similar fashion.

Cheers, Chris.
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