Help building under Windows7 64-bit

[Dalibor Topic]

Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> This seems to be common with ex-proprietary codebases; I remember
> having major issues building Firefox back in the day, and some of the
> worst build systems I can think of other than OpenJDK are OpenOffice
> and Chromium...

Cross-platform build systems for native code that need to go through a
bootstrapping step to create tools used later in the build are by their
nature non-trivial. Take a look at the gcc build system, for another
example -> ohloh claims that 7% of the gcc code is written in autoconf.
[1] ;)

cheers,
dalibor topic

[1] http://www.ohloh.net/p/gcc/analyses/latest
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