[Box Backup-dev] Win32

[Ben Summers]

On 20 Dec 2005, at 20:59, Chris Wilson wrote:

> 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?

I'd prefer not to have the autogen_* stuff in SVN.

Is such a script difficult? I could run it as a cron job on the  
repository server as long as it'll be happy with just a plain OpenBSD  
environment.

Ben