Re: [pcre-dev] Windows build (fwd)

Am 19.01.2010 18:12, schrieb Philip Hazel:
> On Sun, 17 Jan 2010, Davide Libenzi wrote:
>
>> Anyway, whatever method you guys choose, it'd be good to have a way to
>> build PCRE on Windows w/out installing extra software (like cmake).
>
You install hundreds of megabytes of M$ compilers but won't install cmake?
> My reservation is that adding two more "config-like" files means that
> there are then two more files that have to be updated when things
> change. And things do change: new build-time options get added, and
> occasionally a new source file comes along. At least with CMake I can
> test a change under Linux, which gives me some hope that I've done it
> right. :-)
That's the point - it doesn't help anyone but makes more work for Philip.

CMake is good enough and pcre is not the only one which needs cmake on
windows...

Christian