<p>I can't really believe I could be suggesting something like this, but anyone tried <a href="https://mesonbuild.com/" rel="nofollow">meson</a> or such?  I'm not totally opposed against moving away from Autotools in the unlikely event there's a decent alternative (e.g. that does everything we need from AT [1], and has actual advantages), although every time I saw a new build system claiming this it fell short in one way or the other.<br>
Just an idea, because I unfortunately doubt we can make libtool fast on Windows, and we need at least libgeany being a shared library for plugins.  Or maybe things like ninja would help a little? (I doubt it, as it should still run the same commands)</p>
<p>[1] maybe the most common shortcomings are distribution tarballs and painless portability to exotic Unices.</p>

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