I like programming with Visual Studio but I also like to make my projects open source and available to share. Sometimes though I use third party libraries and I link to them through the project files -- I was just wondering if there were like configure scripts that I could use to setup the project files for includes and libraries since this is basically like the makefiles for windows. On unix systems it's a little easier because 'make install' creates the install in absolute locations but there is nothing like this for windows (right?)