Re: [tdf-discuss] Compiling in Windows

2010-10-31 Thread Simon Brouwer
Op 29-10-2010 16:22, plino schreef: I'm not a programmer but something is puzzling me: why is LibreOffice compiled with MS VC++ compiler? Only LibreOffice for Windows is. The reason is probably that it is the best compiler to produce programs for Windows with. This forces the installer to

Re: [tdf-discuss] Compiling in Windows

2010-10-31 Thread Christian Lohmaier
Hi *, On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 4:22 PM, plino pedl...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not a programmer but something is puzzling me: why is LibreOffice compiled with MS VC++ compiler? This forces the installer to include the VC++ runtimes... Wouldn't it make more sense to use the FOSS compiler MinGW?

[tdf-discuss] Compiling in Windows

2010-10-29 Thread plino
I'm not a programmer but something is puzzling me: why is LibreOffice compiled with MS VC++ compiler? This forces the installer to include the VC++ runtimes... Wouldn't it make more sense to use the FOSS compiler MinGW? -- View this message in context: