This is true, but it's not all truth :) For a long time gcc even from mingw was producing much better assembly than msvc. Even today msvc requires some annoying poking around with all sort of weird and wonderful workarounds forbetter performance. Plus it's a bit slow about all the language extensions and such. From this point of view clang seems interesting to test.
On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 11:36 PM, Mike Erwin <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- With best regards, Sergey Sharybin _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
