Re: Win32 port status?

[Phil Ashby]

Jari Turkia wrote:
> ...
> My idea would be to achieve a working code base for freely available MS 
> tools, namely Visual Studio Express 
> (http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/) and already obsoleted 
> Visual C++ Toolkit 2003. To me it looks like there is no point in trying 
> to maintain any older commercial development tool versions (VC 6 or 4.2 
> for example).

Agreed - what about the mingw cross-compiled (or native mingw-win32) 
builds? I'm pretty sure any code changes required for VSE would apply 
similarly to these compilers, but is it too much effort to avoid the 
WinXP/SP2 tie in that comes with VSE (what about people who want to 
build on other MS platforms?)

> Also a ready built binary version for each new release 
> would be needed. And as an additional bonus, I'm sure I could hack up a 
> system to run a nightly build for Win32 version too.
>
> So, how does that sound like?

You are a star Jari - I'm looking forward to fresh Win32 binaries already :)

P