On 7/2/12 12:48 PM, Kelleher, Kevin wrote:
I'm asking about this as something I might like to try myself:
Has any thought been given to removing the dependence on MinGW?
I'm sure there must be very good reasons for using that compiler,
and on looking through the email archive, the bikesheds and proposals,
the issue isn't even mentioned, so it's clearly not regarded
as important.
And honestly, on my part, it's purely an aesthetic consideration.
But still, when I downloaded Rust this morning, I had to spend
a little time looking up the issue about the missing
libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll, and then was a bit dismayed at the
size of the MinGW download.
So... would I be foolish to try to port and compile the code using
Microsoft's C++? The idea would be to produce Rust binaries
that don't require additional downloads.
I started on this a year or two ago, but didn't finish due to some weird
vtable issues which may well be gone now. There's some support code
still lying around for it (src/rt/msvc). I think it would be a good project.
Patrick
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