Re: [xml] Building libxml2 as a DLL under MinGW MSYS

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 04:59:53PM +0200, Igor Zlatkovic wrote:
> >   I don't understand why you want to use configure on your platform
> > it's clearly problemematic since even the presence of an Unix like
> > shell cannot be garanteed. Sounds a sure way to a support hell...
>
> He has MSYS, which is in essence Cygwin-Lite. The thing contains bash and he
> can execute an Unix shell script. The problem is that there is no builtin
> #definition which differs between a plain mingw and a mingw + MSYS. That
> will certainly lead to problems in the include paths. The one can do
> configure, the other cannot, and they therefore need a different header set.

  But why use configure when a fixed config is clearly easier to handle ?

Daniel

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