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From: bart <bc@freeuk.com>
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Subject: Re: Python recompile
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On 09/03/2025 21:54, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Sun, 9 Mar 2025 12:16:56 +0000, bart wrote:
> 
>> It's more likely that they don't even think about it.
> 
> Feel free to supply the thinking you think (heh) is missing. It’s all Open
> Source, after all.
> 
>> They only get vocal when it is necessary to build on a non-Unix
>> environment and complain that it is rubbish because all that baggage is
>> missing.
> 
> No, you were the one complaining about not being able to get a build to
> work on Windows.

A build originating on Unix systems.

> And this for a package which is known to build on
> Windows.

It has been known to. But as I showed it doesn't always work.

But, when I eliminate the makefile nonsense, it often does work, more 
simply and more quickly. However I need to hunt down the basic info 
needed (WHICH C FILES DO I HAVE TO SUBMIT TO THE COMPILER? It's not 
hard!), because that information is usually buried inside makefiles.

That is, when makefiles even exist, and are not synthesised by yet 
another layer of complexity.

The way I see it is that you guys would be lost without the hand-holding 
provided by your environment.

Suppose I were to pose a challenge: take a project, in C, that normally 
relies on makefiles, and find out how it could be built using ONLY a C 
compiler, and the necessary .c and .h files.

Think you could do it, or is that just too hard?