Re: [ot] making stuff

[Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>]

"chris.danx" <spamoff.danx@ntlworld.com> writes:

> is it possible to generate makefiles that will work on both unix/linux and
> windows?

For my own use, I installed the cygwin utilities on my Windows
machines.  This made it *much* easier to write portable make files.

Without cygwin, it was possible, but it was a huge pain (for various
reasons mentioned elsewhere in this thread).

Of course, if you're distributing code to miscellaneous folks who may or
may not have cygwin, you're stuck with the pain.  You end up with either
huge amounts of OS-conditional junk, or simply maintain two different
make files.

- Bob