To avoid the autotools dependencies, we used autosetup https://msteveb.github.io/autosetup https://msteveb.github.io/autosetup It's very compact to be included

To avoid the autotools dependencies, we used autosetup https://msteveb.github.io/autosetup https://msteveb.github.io/autosetup It's very compact to be included along with the project. It does the configure, which tests compiler features and installed libraries. Then generates the Makefile using your custom Makefile.in. Basically, it's a compact set of Tcl scripts, it even includes a small Tcl engine, in case it's not installed on the platform.