On 07/29/2008 11:03 PM Erik Trimble wrote:
I certainly can't speak for Sun on this. But, I don't think there is
any immediate plans to use GCC on Windows. It would probably be OK if
someone wanted to try, but I can't imagine it being even remotely easy.
There's just so much stuff dependent on the various Visual Studio or MS
SDK header files, that I'm almost positive you have to install them to
do the build, so why bother with GCC? (even from a Free Software point
of view, if you can't get away from the proprietary MS SDK/VisStudio,
then compiling with GCC rather than the MS-provided one isn't going to
be really any win at all).
Indeed. But we should make it possible to use the free versions of the
MS Visual Studio at least.
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best regards,
Anthony
