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Mike Jackson Senior Research Engineer
Innovative Management & Technology Services
On Apr 12, 2008, at 11:52 AM, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
On 2008-04-12 10:07+0200 Andreas Pakulat wrote:
<personal opinion>
My experience with MinGW so far is that its simply not ready yet for
projects such as boost or KDE, they still need some time. Thats why
I won't do work on getting KDevelop4 working on MinGW - at least not
without someone paying for it.
</personal opinion>
That's fine, but then somebody else with access to windows should
volunteer to do that testing since MinGW is an extremely important
platform.
I don't have access to windows myself, but I have been fascinated
over the
years at just how popular MinGW has been at SourceForge. Usually,
that
software is in the top 25 projects there (rated in terms of an
activity
index made up of a number of factors including downloads). For
example,
from
http://sourceforge.net/project/stats/detail.php?
group_id=2435&ugn=mingw&type=prdownload&mode=12months&year=2008&packag
e_id=0
they have from 300 to 600 thousand (!) downloads per month over the
last
year.
Finally, from our PLplot experience, MinGW (fortunately we do have
a couple
of developers with access to that platform) works fine if you make
some
special adjustments for its needs. So Andreas's above statement
probably
needs to be reversed, i.e., boost and KDE need some time/effort to
work on
MinGW. Such effort should be worth it since there is obviously _a
lot_ of
interest in the MinGW platform that would be a shame to ignore for any
project.
My $0.02.
Alan
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Alan W. Irwin
And just to add some more info about boost:
http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_35_0/more/getting_started/
windows.html#identify-your-toolset
Under the "Toolset" column is "gcc" with the following description:
gcc
The Gnu Project
Includes support for Cygwin and MinGW compilers.
So, boost is directly supporting MinGW. So should FindBoost.cmake.
Now.. if we could just convince Boost to switch to CMake from bjam..
Cheers
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Mike
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