On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 1:22 AM, Ruben Van Boxem <[email protected]> wrote: > 2012/6/3 Jim Michaels <[email protected]> >> >> guys, my question is, how does this news affect mingw-w64? is this going >> to make my auto build compilers disappear? >> >> what's the status on the buildbot? >> >> all kinds of big things are falling apart this last 2 months. ack! > > > > What do you mean? MinGW-w64 is completely seperate from the Windows SDK and > whatever they leave out of it. If anything MinGW-w64 will become really > popular (I mean even more than right now) real fast because of this... > GCC/MinGW will be the only way for an open source project to build software > (once the Windows SDK v7.1 is phased out or too old).
I could forsee an issue where future OS's contain an extremely stripped down msvcrt.dll, forcing users to have a copy of the VS crt dll to do anything worthwhile. In this case, ironcrate will become a necessity. But that's not MS's direction at this point, IIUC. So, we don't have anything to worry about yet. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Mingw-w64-public mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public
