[gambit-list] Autoconf
Andrew Lentvorski
bsder at allcaps.org
Fri Mar 14 17:05:07 EDT 2008
Joel J. Adamson wrote:
> Dear Gambitizers,
>
> Does anyone use Autoconf? One of the supposed advantages of compiling
> Scheme->C is that the C is portable and therefore "compilable" by anyone
> with a C compiler.
>
> Autoconf seems to be the most familiar routine (I mean typing
> ./configure && make && make install), so it would be good to know how to
> set up such a distribution. For example, "make dist" would compile
> scheme modules in such a way that all the work left is for the C
> compiler.
>
> I realize this raises some questions about linking with Gambit, so I'm a
> little confused.
>
> Does anyone have a schema for using Autoconf that I could see?
I don't recommend using autoconf. It's especially bad when you need to
do cross-compiling where the original build environment differs from the
environment that you want to deploy into.
In addition, you can just *forget* Windows.
I really recommend scons. It has almost as much magic as autoconf, and
it's a *lot* friendlier. It also handles Windows as well as
cross-compiling much better.
The downside, of course, is that it requires Python if you are going to
build from scratch.
-a
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