With Visual Studio now free (as in beer) for small teams and open source projects, that takes away one major reason to keep using MinGW. Yes Visual Studio is a much larger beast than any command-line compiler, but it's pretty nice to use.
Mike Erwin musician, naturalist, pixel pusher, hacker extraordinaire On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 4:07 AM, Campbell Barton <[email protected]> wrote: > MinGW has been in (semi) broken state for some months now, since some > libraries are missing. > > This is noted on the build page: > > http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Doc/Building_Blender/Windows/MinGW/CMake > > On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 4:24 PM, Sergey Sharybin <[email protected]> > wrote: > > There's currently no precompiled OpenSubdiv libraries for mingw. > > > > As for the future -- i don't really think we'll keep maintaining mingw > > libraries. This is because mingw was proven to have obscure issues which > > makes blender builds unstable. Think we'd be moving to clang rather than > > keeping trying to use mingw. > > > > But that's my vision of the situation, maybe Antony (who was the main guy > > maintaining mingw builds) has different input here. > > > > On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 8:34 AM, Yousef Harfoush <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> hi > >> > >> i tried to build opensubdiv with scons and mingw but it seems that the > >> libraries are not found in the mingw lib folder, is it supported on this > >> compiler? if not will it be? thank you. > >> > >> > >> Regards > >> Yousef Harfoush > >> [email protected] > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Bf-committers mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > With best regards, Sergey Sharybin > > _______________________________________________ > > Bf-committers mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > > > > -- > - Campbell > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
