Wouldnt using the Ms Compiler for windows builds be less of a nightmare and less breakage occuring then using mingw?
On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 9:31 AM, Jean-Baptiste Faure < jbf.fa...@sud-ouest.org> wrote: > Le 22/04/2013 19:46, Jonathan Aquilina a écrit : > > Rainer what i want to understand is why use an external build tool when > > there is an equivalent to make built directly into visual studio. think > its > > time for me to fire up the win 8 box and run nmake from command line and > > see if that does anything or if it works. > > Probably to remove the dependency to MS compiler ? With MinGW you can > use GCC as C/C++ compiler. > > Best regards. > JBF > > -- > Seuls des formats ouverts peuvent assurer la pérennité de vos documents. > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- Jonathan Aquilina -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
