Unit tests of internal functions

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Tue Dec 29 13:22:19 EST 2009


Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> writes:
> Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> writes:

>> 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.

Yeah, MinGW is the other UNIX-like environment.  I don't know a lot about
it other than seeing it mentioned in various places, although I know it's
supposed to be a lot lighter-weight for the end user than Cygwin.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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