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Re:Zlib-ng: a performance-oriented fork of zlib by danieldk on Friday June 05, 2015 @10:43AM (#9665800)
Exactly. autotools is exceptionally well designed for dealing with more exotic use cases like cross compiling.

...and it cannot deal with non-exotic use cases like non-UNIX environments (think Windows + Visual Studio) well at all. In contrast, with CMake you can generate an nmake file or Visual Studio project with one command.

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Re:Zlib-ng: a performance-oriented fork of zlib by JoshTriplett on Friday June 05, 2015 @11:05AM (#9665939)
On the other hand, with autotools you can cross-compile for Windows using MinGW.
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Re:Zlib-ng: a performance-oriented fork of zlib by Sanddancer on Friday June 05, 2015 @01:24PM (#9666709)
Just like someone under unix could always just use mono's xbuild to build a project using visual studio's .vsproj files. Course, people tend to get grumpy when you tell them that they have to jump through hoops to use your project, just like your suggestion...
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