Re: has anyone tried to build mozilla under win32 with one of the win32 GCC ports?

[Daniel Veditz]

Jonathan Wilson wrote:

> As opposed to using visual C++?
> Other than the use of NMAKE, what other visual C++ only technologies 
> does mozilla use?
> Is there any reason why a "port" to gcc win32 wouldnt be possible?
> 

There have been attempts to switch the windows builds over to autoconf and 
gmake. From there switching compilers would be much easier. Not sure what 
the status is, I suspect the effort is dormant at the moment.

-Dan Veditz