On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Ruben Van Boxem <[email protected]> wrote: > 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...
That is quite possible. > 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). What do you mean here? You can still pay Microsoft and get the Visual Studio Professional or similar version to build Open Source project. In fact, we use WDK (no cost) and VS Pro (cost money) for the development of the Open Source libusb-win32 (LGPL/GPL) and libusbK (BSD/GPL). We also need to buy the digital certificate from GlobalSign to get the kernel drivers signed. So Open Source development does not mean no-cost or even low-cost (think Linux) development. FYI, Fedora needs to pay Verisign as well to get the Verisign to sign Fedora 18 so it can work with Microsoft's UEFI Secure Boot. http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2181774/red-hat-pay-verisign-sign-fedora-microsofts-uefi-secure-boot -- Xiaofan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
