package config file for windows

Hi,

I'm maintaining randtoolbox package on CRAN and I wonder how to do a  
windows config file? I need to test SSE2 instructions support as well  
as inttypes.h library check.

Currently I use the trick of 'foreign' package, i.e. I have config.win  
file with
cp -p src/config.h.win src/config.h
and config.h.win was written manually from config.h.in. There is no  
test at all on windows.

In 'writing r extension' on this topic, we find
"
You should bear in mind that the con???gure script may well not work on  
Windows systems
(this seems normally to be the case for those generated by Autoconf,  
although simple shell scripts
do work). If your package is to be made publicly available, please  
give enough information for a
user on a non-Unix platform to con???gure it manually, or provide a  
???configure.win??? script to be
used on that platform. (Optionally, there can be a ???cleanup.win???  
script as well. Both should
be shell scripts to be executed by ash, which is a minimal version of  
Bourne-style sh.)
"
Which tool do I need to write config script on windows? Do I need an  
autoconf-cygwin solution? ( http://sources.redhat.com/autobook/autobook/autobook_242.html#SEC242 
  ) or just a port of autoconf available on sourceforge?

package config file for windows

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