I`m using mingw on a daily basis in my amateur 'production' (some things don't work but its nothing that I am using) ...
...its the same story every time: 1. its faster (cycles cpu render, booleans = linux speed) 2. its compact and portable. We have now OpenSubD... next is OpenVDB, Ptex... and after that i will consider a good comeback of mingw. P.S. I know nothing of clang but maybe could be a good substitute On 23 September 2015 at 21:15, Sergey Sharybin <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
