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The equivalent of ./configure in Windows?

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What is the equivalent of ./configure in Windows?

Sometimes I download a C/C++ library and when I use the make it, it says "use ./configure" but obviously ./configure can only be used on a Linux machine and the libraries don't usually have instructions for compiling on Windows (although they do support Windows, they don't provide instructions).

For example, the library wxSVG says it works on Windows, but when I download it I don't see any instructions for compiling on Windows, and I only Linux files for configuring it.

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Brad Avatar asked Nov 14 '10 21:11

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I just faced with the same issue and here is what I did,

I first installed MinGw using the installation manager (with msys base included). Then I go to C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\ folder in my pc, where msys.bat (to evoke the MinGW shell) and run it. Then on that bash screen, I navigated to the folder that I wanted to install initially. After that, using "./configure" and "make" worked just fine.

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