Autotools build system?

[saghul]

I know, I know, autotools is what everyone loves to hate, but given how tiny this library is I think the benefits outweigh the drawbacks:

• compile time dependency detection
• installation target
• static library creation
• cross-compilation?

I you're onboard with it, I could work on a patch, it shouldn't be too hard since the project is not big and it's pretty straightforward to build.

[jbenet]

please oh god no. lots of people (including me) run away screaming from autotools.

please learn to use any of the many build systems for 2015:

• make
• tup - http://gittup.org/tup/
• blaze (bazel) - http://bazel.io/
• gyp - https://code.google.com/p/gyp/

[jbenet]

i normally don't make comments like these in general, but autotools is one of those that cuts through all sorts of social barriers. all is fair in love, war, and preventing people from autotools hell. (don't mean to be a jerk, just mean to prevent obscurity and pain)

[saghul]

I don't plan to start any argument here. I volunteered to do it. Multiple build systems are not orthogonal, in other projects I participate we use both GYP (which sucks in its own way) and autotools, and that's fine.

A better way to reply to my offer would be other to add some reasoning why it would be such a bad idea for this project specifically.

[nickdesaulniers]

cmake...

[Globik]

Have you tried compiling this on the windows machiene?