Re: Win32 port status?

[Jari Turkia]

Phil Ashby 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?)
Personally, I am not familiar with mingw-win32. My initial thought was, 
that a stand-alone .exe/.dll -package (MSVC) and Cygwin would do the 
trick for most of us.

What does mingw do, or have to offer?
> You are a star Jari - I'm looking forward to fresh Win32 binaries 
> already :)
Thank you! :-) I will send the binaries to Pawel to have the files 
freely available from regular download locations.

Regards,
Jari Turkia