[Gambas-devel] Windows stuff

[Brandon Bergren]

>> I'm just asking for a reservation for future use. ;)
> No problem with OS_WINDOWS.

Wow, that was fast.

Any chance of using caching for the configure script?

Configure on cygwin takes a VERY long time. (forking on windows is 
EXTREMELY slow.)

I started using libtool-cache (http://libtool-cache.sourceforge.net/) 
which speeds up compiles a lot, but that doesn't decrease the time to run 
configure.

I'm looking forward to 1.9.4!

Two more things about the build system:

1. builddir!=srcdir.
Has anyone thought about this problem?
Example:

cd gambas2-1.9.3
mkdir build-debug
cd build-debug
../configure
make

This lets you have several parallel builds. I think you do it by using 
$TOP_BUILDDIR instead of relative ../'s, or something..
It's a useful thing to support.

2. Nonrecursive make.

Here's a (somewhat famous) paper on the topic: 
http://www.pcug.org.au/~millerp/rmch/recu-make-cons-harm.html


--Brandon B.