<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 4:12 AM, Matthew Mondor <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mm_lists@pulsar-zone.net">mm_lists@pulsar-zone.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div id=":2o">I see a number of opensource projects which used to support mingw32 but<br>
which no longer officially do, however. So cheers for caring.<br></div></blockquote></div><br>I only do it because there is a persistent demand for it.<div><br></div><div>Mingw32+Msys is a rather slow, inconvenient and difficult to use toolchain. I understand the library distribution issues, but once ECL's NSIS system is brought back online one could probably include the MSVC runtime in it without much problems. As for the cross-compilation part, nowadays this is not a problem, given the existence of VirtualBox and other virtualization software that allows you to run Windows, log into it via ssh, share files, build, download the result...<br clear="all">
<br><div>Juanjo</div><div><br>-- <br>Instituto de Física Fundamental, CSIC<br>c/ Serrano, 113b, Madrid 28006 (Spain) <br><a href="http://juanjose.garciaripoll.googlepages.com" target="_blank">http://juanjose.garciaripoll.googlepages.com</a><br>
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