On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 11:12:02AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Cygwin as a tools environment on win32 is fine. The mozilla project uses a > similar setup > and it works nicely. Tor mentions a couple of others.
Please don't spread misinformation. Mozilla switched to MSYS from cygwin for Firefox 3.x years ago, because cygwin sucked. > The issue is not the tools, but the compiler/linker. When building on > win32, you want to > identify this is the case and pick up a 'standard' compiler - usually > msdev, so that you > build against the standard runtime, select appropriate compile/linker flags > and don't end > up with Cygwin dependencies. Whether moving your entire build system to a > cross platform > build solution is "easy" or not, remains to be seen. It is certainly > possible - evidence > - the mozilla build system. As said before, Mozilla doesn't use cygwin anymore. And the rest of the build system is considered a horrible pile of unwieldly crap, but would take several man-months to redo, so nothing gets done about it. > Regarding volunteering. No, thanks. No-one enjoys this work. It is tedious > and dull. > Way too busy, anyway. Sorry. Then you admit it's not as easy as you claim. So far all your criticisms are invalidated because you don't have your facts straight. -Yosh _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
