[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Analysis of regressions in ueb_update branch
- From: Christian Egli <christian.egli@xxxxxx>
- To: Michael Gray <mgray@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2016 15:57:32 +0100
Michael Gray <mgray@xxxxxxx> writes:
I have seen from your efforts that it is difficult to build gnulib with
MSVC. I have never built it myself on MSVC. Is it because gnulib relies
heavily on the autotools? All I know is that gnulib itself has ifdefs in
it for MSVC so I assumed it would also help with portability problems
for MSVC.
The issue I have come across is that Windows does not support all POSIX
functions, e.g. strndup.
But now I'm confused. That is the whole point of gnulib: that it
contains (POSIX) functionality for the platforms that do not support it.
If you include the module strndup then it will create the functionality
on Mac OS X 10.5 or MSVC 9 for example. Libc-based platforms will just
use the code in libc. But for that to work I guess you need configure
(and some of the other autotools machinery). I thought the need of
autotools was the problem.
Anyway, I'll try to find out.
Thanks
Christian
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