Autotools project import

[radev]

Is there any way to import project using autotools into CB?

I found only MSVS projects import in SVN version, but no popular Linux project files import...  :?:

[thomas]

Ask Takeshi

[takeshimiya]

Getting missunderstandings from long ago:

This pretty much sounded like "autotools import" to me.

"./configure" != simple "./configure-like".

Personally, I was amazed then, and I still am, because I don't have even the faintest idea how one could implement such a thing.

lol, neither I do. Parsing m4 in heavy cryptic 700KB configure scripts is something that we never live enough to see, probably. :lol:

Just in case after the 3-months-long explanations wasn't clear :lol:, I was talking about create a new cross-platform system which would do simmilar things to what ./configure does on linux. Certainly nothing to do with auto-tools import, neither with auto-tools.

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Now on the topic: If someone haves lot's of time in his hands, knows m4 and autofriends to heart, and uses some kind of parser-generator (boost::wave, antlr), certainly it would not be *that* unfeasible.
But again, if someone ends writting a auto-tools import, it will be useless if we don't have all the elements to be translated to.
We have the C::B build system which replaces automake.
But we don't have a cross-platform configure system which replaces autoconf.
And we don't have a cross-platform configure system which replaces ./configure.

So if anyone is be interested the steps could be:
-Create a make replacement (done).
-Create an automake replacement (done).
-Create a configure replacement.
-Create an autoconf replacement.
-Create a libtool replacement.
-Create an autotools importer.


In what I'm interested is in creating a configure replacement: I can visualize (some XML/INI perhaps) distributed with each package, telling the available flags and configurations for the given library, and modes of compilations, compilers supported, etc. while they will be selected in a GUI or console way by the user.
Unfortunately I don't got the time (working on other things), but if someone wants to do it, I'm willing to help

Basically the configure GUI version would be very simmilar to this:


Regards,
Takeshi Miya