AAP static libraries tools

Dear all,
thanks for AAP. Great (useful)  project! I have been using SCons, but I found the portability issues and configure-like steps not that clear.

I have tried to set up aap files (without agide) for compiling on different platforms, however I get problems when trying to compile static libraries on Windows platform.

1)
Using the borland compiler
	:usetool bcc
I want to compile a static library
	:lib mylib: src\mylibX.c

then bcc compiles correctly the *.c object(s) however the linking is done with Microsoft  LIB.exe. The borland linker is TLIB.EXE (provided with the borland command line tools). I haven't found any place nor variable to fix this to TLIB.EXE without hardcoding it in the python sources, how to?

Note :  if I use gcc w. dgjpp (:usetool gcc), the linker is LIB.exe as well, and not AR
2)
Then if the project tree is the same on linux/unix and windows, it should not be required to rewrite the subdirectory indicator :

Linux :
	:lib mylib: src/mysource.c

Windows:
	:lib mylib: src\mysource.c

If I remember well SCons uses '/' even on windows and translates to the right format according to the platform. The only solution I have found is to do an @if  statement, because aap complains on windows if I use "/". 

3)
I have a test directory that uses the recently created lib, but I don't know how to write a reference to this lib in a platform independant manner :  I have used  
	LIBS = ../lib/$?LIBPREmylib$?LIBSUF

so that if the system produces mylib.lib it will be taken as well as libmylib.a on linux. The problem is that the concatenation of $?LIBPREmylib$?LIBSUF doesnt work and produces "../lib/.lib" on windows How to write it in a correct manner?

Thanks for your help, long life to the project (I especially expect a lot from the :conf  commands..)
Fred


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