[Ecls-list] Windows self-installer

[francogrex at mail.com]

The idea of the installer for windows is very nice. I am of the opinion 
that a MinGW based installer wouldf be much better. In fact I have 
strong suspicions that the majority of the people using ECL on windows 
use MinGW/gcc rather than MSVC (at least all the people I know who use 
ecl all use it with MinGW). It does make a lot of sense to focus 
developement on the MinGW side rather than the msvc side.

Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2011 14:09:14 +0300
From: Samium Gromoff <_deepfire at feelingofgreen.ru>
Subject: Re: [Ecls-list] Windows self-installer
To: Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll <juanjose.garciaripoll at googlemail.com>,
list-ecl <ecls-list at lists.sourceforge.net>
Message-ID: <874o9n6205.fsf at auriga.feelingofgreen.ru>
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On Wed, 5 Jan 2011 11:14:26 +0100, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll 
<juanjose.garciaripoll at googlemail.com>
wrote:
> The self-installer has been created using Microsoft Visual Studio 
2008. If
> it causes problems, we might switch to Mingw32, but I would rather 
not do
> that.

The positive side of using Mingw, is that, from my experience, the
resulting ECL library does not depend on any kind of anything external
entities, not already present on a typical windows install.

Use of a MSVS-built ECL, again, from my experience, requires
installation of the Visual C redistributable on the user machine.