Hello Viktor:
Here's an outsider's point of view and vision about harbour.
This is a multiplattform compiler so in my personall point of view the
only c commpiler that should be guaranteed to work flawless is gcc/mingw.
Other compilers should be responsibility of special distros supporters.
Also hbmk2 should be the only and official way to compile and build
everything, from core to utils to samples.
JMHO
Angel
PD: Same about gui. xbgtk and or QT should be the only ones officialy
supported by this project.
Viktor Szakáts escribió:
Hi agree about importance of give a choice and agree mingw/msvc path
can we follow Minigui that include harbour & MinGW to be ready to use
for windows platform?
I don't know MiniGUI, so I cannot tell.
What is possible though is to provide such a binary distribution
which is based on MinGW, contains MinGW binaries and also
includes MSVC libs. Such package is a self-contained one being
able to create executables without any external tools, it also has
GNU Make, and it's also possible to use it with MSVC and even
POCC if someone has these installed.
I'll check if I can make hbmk2 detect such embedded mingw
installation automatically.
Such package is a 42MB .zip, and if this seems to be okay for
everyone such package may replace our current compiler
dependent distros, by the simple names of:
harbour-1.1.0-win-x86.zip
harbour-1.1.0-win-x86.exe
harbour-1.1.0-win-x64.zip
harbour-1.1.0-win-x64.exe
harbour-1.1.0-wince-arm.zip
harbour-1.1.0-wince-arm.exe
I think such distros would send a much better message
towards users and give them a much better service. Of course,
all BCC/owatcom users will have to migrate to above proper
compilers to be able to follow.
Opinions?
Brgds,
Viktor
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