Unit tests of internal functions

Derek Atkins warlord at mit.edu
Tue Dec 29 10:07:48 EST 2009


Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> writes:

> Ezra Peisach <epeisach at MIT.EDU> writes:
>
>> Does automake/libtool work under windows - or compatible in some manner?
>> I've heard of some people using cmake to help with this or even
>> scons....  All would be major undertakings....
>
> No, Automake and Libtool doesn't help with Windows portability (except to
> the UNIX-like environments like Cygwin).  But most projects I know that
> also build on Windows ship a separate set of build and project files for
> Windows anyway, which try to behave as the native tools expect.

For what it's worth the GnuCash project uses automake/libtool and does
build a Windows app.  We use the MinGW toolset/environment to build it
all, but it works fine.

-derek

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