FreeTDS Development Group

["Frank M. Kromann" <frank AT kromann.info>]

> This fix is really not the best idea.  All this information should be
kept
> in one place.  Maintaining divergent copies of these files for each
platform
> is not a scalable way to provide good cross-platform portability.

Agreed.

> 
> These files were originally written in a manner such that "copy
> freetds_sysconfdir.h.in freetds_sysconfdir.h" and "copy
> tds_sysdep_public.h.in tds_sysdep_public.h" would be sufficient to
configure
> these headers for a native WIN32 build.  Is MSVC's build system really
so
> brain dead that it can't handle such a task?

No. MSVC can handle custom builds calling all sorts of external commands,
including copy.

- Frank