On Thu, 22 Mar 2012, Ellié Computing Open Source Program wrote:

>> It is not supported. Use different source trees when building for
>> different platforms.

> to be honest, I don't really care if it _was_ not supported. it should. any
> decent library can do that, in fact, all the libraries I know of except toy
> libraries can do that.

Then finally we have a toy library! Awesome. And to be honest, I do play a
fair bit with libcurl so that might be a fitting description!

> and in addition, it used to support it. I don't believe regression is a must
> have.

Perhaps it used to, but that must've been a pretty good while ago, isn't it?
These things mentioned that are in the way are in no way any recent changes.

> I'm ready to propose patches and so on, including makefiles, .BATs... Is the
> way I proposed OK? (adding a include/curl folder in a winbuild and copying
> the curlbuild.h.dist there rather than polluting the main tree?)

I'm not sure I understand. Are you suggesting the "winbuild" is performed in a
separate directory that isn't within the source tree? Will that really fly
with VC project files and both versions of makefiles we have? Or did I
misunderstand?

-- 
  / daniel.haxx.se

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