On Mon, 02 Mar 2009, Pritpal Bedi wrote:

Hi,

> As I have been able to build my executables 
> with MinGW and xMate, I think it is viable to offer
> ready-to-use distribution ( as I had posted earlier
> with BCC and removed afterwards due to 
> Borland's licensing restrictions ) with MinGW as 
> compiler. This distribution will aim at
> newbies and can be used for ad-hoc testing
> of complex as well as few liners projects.

Please remember that Harbour does not need bison for
compilation so you do not have to include it.
It's necessary only for developers who want to create
new Harbour grammar rules. AFAIK only few persons here
tried to ever make any modifications in grammar files.

> Before I go in this direction I need to know 
> I am not violating MinGW licensing by packaging 
> it into a Harbour distribution.

It should not cause any problems but MinGW has automatic
installer which also can make updates. IMHO attaching
such installer with small instruction: "confirm default
settings" to Harbour compiler configured to use with default
MinGW paths should be enough.

best regards,
Przemek
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