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[Marius Kintel <kintel@...>]

Hi again,

I'm not a Windows user, and I don't know what requirements there are 
for building KiCad under Windows, so regard this as a small warning, 
if it applies at all:

Regarding autotools, my experience is that it is a lot of effort to 
develop an autotools-based build system which works flawlessly under 
Windows, especially in terms of compiling using Microsoft's compilers 
since these differ a fair bit from unix-style compilers.

When evaluating this, it might be an idea to take a look at the build 
system of Coin3D (http://www.coin3d.org). A couple of different 
approaches are available there; e.g. wrapping the MSVC compiler to 
accept gcc cmd-line options, alternatively generate project files for 
building inside Visual Studio.
(it's the only project I know about which uses autotools under 
Windows/MSVC)

~/= Marius

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