Windows-centric auto-tools (was LDAP over SSL on Win32)

[Lee Fisher <bl...@gmail.com>]

 > The basic problem we face is that in Unixland we have the autoconf
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 > In Windowsland, to my knowledge, we have no such tool -
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I've thought about this before.

Someone should write a tool that replaces autotools/configure with 
generated scripts that areWindow SDK/MSC/NMake-centric.

MSFT should fund /grant a student to do it. It would help them reclaim 
some compiler marketshare, while funding an open^Wshared source project. 
Heck, If the solution tied people to Visual Studio, they'd pay a company 
to write it for them. Like people write QuickStart SDK samples, etc. 
Maybe someone here recently visited Redmond? :-) Or if not MSFT, maybe GSoC?

The Antinat proxy has an "autowin", currently just a fancy makefile, it 
might be a starting point.
http://antinat.sourceforge.net/build.shtml

The stuff you -- and the OpenSSL project -- do is already pretty fancy 
custom build script generation.