[Ecls-list] Status of mingw + msvc, update

[Marko Kocić]

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 8:39 PM, Juan Jose
Garcia-Ripoll<juanjose.garciaripoll at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> + msvc + single-threaded
>> + msvc + multi-threaded
>>
>> I have managed to set up the automated tests for msvc.
>
> Just fixed two more problems related to the Microsoft Compiler (it
> does not seem to have a reasonable support for bitfields) and set the
> automated tests up and running.
>
> It would be nice if people could find some flags that make this C
> compiler a bit more silent.
>
> Regarding the mingw + threads problem, I have been told by the
> maintainers of the garbage collector that we should upgrade to 7.2a2 I
> am definitely not move to use an alpha release of the collector, but
> if you really need that platform, it should contain full support for
> mingw32.
>
> Juanjo
>

I will try that right now. Last time I didn't have success in building
vanilla gc-7.1. I hope for more success this time.

Thanks.