Re: Compiling lout 3.38 on Windows with mingw+msys

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 11:33 PM, Hugh Sasse <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 17 Oct 2008, Jeff Kingston wrote:
>
>> Is there some standard out there
>> which is used for saying which OS you are on?  I can't find a
>> variable for it anywhere in the GNU make documentation.
>
>  Normally this sort of thing is dealt with by configure in the GNU world,
> so autoconf docs may be more instructive.

You are right, I didn't think of it (probably because I don't like it
very much :) )

To my understanding autoconf compiles a dummy program to get the
extension. Something like:

SUFEXE = `echo "main(){}" > xx.c ; gcc -o yy xx.c ; ls yy* | sed
's/yy//'; rm xx.c yy*`

Could be an option...