One-Click Installer: MinGW? or VC2005?

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I would also like to support a two-part solution that has been suggested
before:

- one part that essentially installs with one click and gives you a nice
system
to start with, like the one-click installer does today,
- plus the possibility to install software from source, as you're used to
from using Ruby under Linux.

I guess this counts as a vote for MinGW :slight_smile:

Best regards,

Axel

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Nuralanur@aol.com wrote:

I guess this counts as a vote for MinGW :slight_smile:
  

Could someone remind me what it was that *can't* be built using MinGW?

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Could someone remind me what it was that *can't* be built using MinGW?

I'll have a shot at that :wink:

There is nothing really that can't be build with mingw/msys. Even though
'Min' stands for Minimal, with the proper support libs you can build
anything at all. Its a full blown compiler suite.

The choice is much more between a standard compiler for MS Windows and one
that is overtaking on the outer lane. Two more comments to that:
* Not sure what standard means on Windows anyway; they have pretty much
shot themselves in the foot a few times in the past over that.
* Can anyone really prove mingw doesn't adhere even more closely to the
standards? Has anyone looked at the generated code and has some solid
technical arguments involving assembler and compiler optimisation that
imply we should chose MS VC++ over mingw?

Ok that last comment is another question, actually. Anyone?

kaspar

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M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:

I guess this counts as a vote for MinGW :slight_smile:
  

Could someone remind me what it was that *can't* be built using MinGW?

  My only concern is the ability to interface with other binary-only
  code, especially c++ libraries.

  To tell the truth, I haven't even tried, so I'm not sure what
  problems, if any, there is with that. But I would really like if
  someone who knows his stuff to try out and convince me that it really
  isn't a issue.

  After that, I'm all for mingw! (though I'd hope they update gcc, even
  for only testing)

  And embedded (extension) developer suite would certainly be awesome!
  Either separate package or gem installable (maybe even have source gem
  for building the cross-compiler?)

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Nuralanur@aol.com wrote:

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