Hi Pedro and Tor,
I forgot to mention another two win32/win64 big and famous open source
appliances:
- MySql (!)
http://www.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/#downloads
- PostgreSql (!)
http://www.postgresql.org/download/windows
About PostgreSql (that I installed, I used, I designed, I used to
develop appliances (SQL, Pg-Pl/Sql) in the past) there is a very
interesting page that could also help us
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/64bit_Windows_port
that was about the win32 -> win64 port. Since version 9.0, EnterpriseDB
deploy and make it available both windows installers and builds (win32
and win64).
What do yuo think about that?
Have a nice evening,
Carlo
Il 02/11/2011 20:22, Carlo Strata ha scritto:
Hi Pedro,
Il 02/11/2011 13:19, Pedro ha scritto:
In my opinion TDF and LibreOffice should abandon the MS compiler and
support
the switch to MinGW which has already been started by Jan Holesovsky
(aka
Kendy)
I think we could put here, at least, the links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MinGW
http://www.mingw.org/
http://mingw-w64.sourceforge.net/
for interested people...
This would also open the path to using MinGW64 and therefore the
creation of
a native 64bit version of LO...
I follow some and various FLOSS projects that are both and natively
win32/win64 like these:
http://7-zip.org/
http://infrarecorder.org/ (If I don't remember wrong, it use MinGW.)
http://www.virtualdub.org/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/free-cad/ and
http://free-cad.sourceforge.net/
...
and some that try to go win64 too, but without official courage,
bravery, fearlessness
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-mozilla-central/
...
and some that are not trying at all
http://filezilla-project.org
http://notepad-plus-plus.org/
...
Could we understand and learn somethings from above projects' choices
and code?
The fact that it is a requirement to use a specific proprietary
compiler to
compile a FLOSS program makes the same sense as offering a free
complete car
(wheels, tires, etc) but to assemble it you would need to buy a
wrench which
is sold by a single company...
There are pros and cons to use Microsoft native and MinGW/GW64
compilers and libs, I suppose.
Just my 2 cents.
Have a nice evening,
Carlo
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