Hi Vaclav, 2012/11/11 Václav Šmilauer <[email protected]>: > >> I have the crazy idea to help with ironCrate. > Just for my knowledge (I am new to mingw), has ironCrate different goals > than other non-MS implementations of MSVC runtime? I imagine reactos > must have one, for instance.
So I am finally detected this question between all those CMake/autotools flames ;) The ironCrate project has as one goal that it shall be API-compatible to msvcr*.dll (means best providing same API as msvcr100.dll from user-perspective. For sure I won't be able - and don't intent to make it 100% feature compatible. For example it makes absolutely sense for us to provide in ironCrate 80-bit math support, having by default POSIX-printf/scanf compatible routines, etc. Another very important point will be that ironCrate has a ZPL (a BSD-like) license, which allows to use it also in a static-version for building applications without having viral-(L)GPL behavior in this scenario. I have already prepared a lot of functions, but I still look for somebody to review those implementations before I add them to repository. I sent part of it to Amine (from ROS) for review, but until now I didn't got any replies. Also I got in the past the offer by Jacek (from Wine) that we could use also parts of msvcrt-library of the Wine-project as long as it is possible to reach orginal authors of code and get their agreement of a re-licensing to ZPL/BSD like license. For the later not sure if it will be really feasable, or if we have to do thing again by our own ... So any help for it is most welcome. The build-system is an important issue, but even more we need developers/reviewers of it and a lot of support :) Regards, Kai PS: I don't have any strong opinion about CMake over Autotoools. But AFAIU has CMake some advantages on Windows platform and it doesn't necessarily requires a POSIX-environment. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_nov _______________________________________________ Mingw-w64-public mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public
