Autoconf

Goals:

• Ease of building in any environment
• Automatically take advantage of powerful features if they are available
• Code should be readable and understandable
• Developers should have a chance of understanding what's going on behind the scenes

Solution: Autoconf

Usages:

• Dirent and sys stat, standard linux libraries not available on Windows
• MKL, blas (AX_BLAS seems to be only for Fortran, is very old)
• Readline (to come)