Viktor, I had the same impression about mingw being a nightmare to install and make it work.
I'll try dragon media :) One more question, for harbour should I use sjlj unwinding or dwarf2? Thanks. Maurilio. Viktor Szakáts wrote: > Hi Maurilio, > >> what are the differences between mingw and dragon media? > > tdragon release is easy to setup/install, while mingw > is extremely time-consuming and frustrating experience > (and it doesn't get any better with newer versions). > > tdragon was also more agile in releasing usable packages > (now at gcc 4.4.1), official mingw tend to wait years between > releases (recently released 4.4.0, but was stuck at 3.4.5 > for many many years) > > tdragon has sjlj default unwinding, with dwarf-2 as easy > to install option, while official 4.4.0 is fixed to dwarf-2, > previous releases fixed to sjlj. (important for QT in > regards of Harbour). Note that dwarf-2 in tdragon has > special tool postfix. > > tdragon has a usable homepage, mingw has the most > frustrating (and broken) homepage of all open source projects > we have to interface with in regards of Harbour. > > Besides unwinding, from a C programmers POV they seem > pretty much identical, but I personally haven't done > any side-by-side speed / executable size / etc comparison, > theoretically they should be pretty close as well. > > Brgds, > Viktor > > _______________________________________________ > Harbour mailing list (attachment size limit: 40KB) > [email protected] > http://lists.harbour-project.org/mailman/listinfo/harbour > -- __________ | | | |__| Maurilio Longo |_|_|_|____| farmaconsult s.r.l. _______________________________________________ Harbour mailing list (attachment size limit: 40KB) [email protected] http://lists.harbour-project.org/mailman/listinfo/harbour
