Re: a list of software compiled by completely free toolchain

2009-11-19 Thread Gabriel
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 05:33:49PM +0100, Gabriel wrote: On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 11:44:40AM -0500, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: The point is that in order for people using windows to come over to use Linux it is necessary to provide this software on Windows as well, making the

Re: a list of software compiled by completely free toolchain

2009-11-16 Thread Gabriel
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 11:44:40AM -0500, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: The point is that in order for people using windows to come over to use Linux it is necessary to provide this software on Windows as well, making the transition easier. Now this software should be able to be compiled

Re: a list of software compiled by completely free toolchain

2009-11-15 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
The point is that in order for people using windows to come over to use Linux it is necessary to provide this software on Windows as well, making the transition easier. Now this software should be able to be compiled using a 100% free software toolchain like MinGW, [...] MinGW

Re: a list of software compiled by completely free toolchain

2009-11-14 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
Python can be compiled by a 100% free software toolchain on GNU variants like GNU/Linux; on top of that Python runs and compile on 100% free systems lke gNewSense (http://gnewsense.org). So I do not understand the question. ___ gnu-misc-discuss

Re: a list of software compiled by completely free toolchain

2009-11-14 Thread linux
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 05:10:37AM -0500, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: Python can be compiled by a 100% free software toolchain on GNU variants like GNU/Linux; on top of that Python runs and compile on 100% free systems lke gNewSense (http://gnewsense.org). So I do not understand the question.

Re: a list of software compiled by completely free toolchain

2009-11-13 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Rjack u...@example.net wrote: Alan Mackenzie wrote: Python (if I am not right, I am sure there exist other examples of this case) as of now seems to still depend on Visual C being compiled on Windows and still causing problems being compiled with MinGW. Is that really true? Aren't there

Re: a list of software compiled by completely free toolchain

2009-11-13 Thread Rjack
Alan Mackenzie wrote: Rjack u...@example.net wrote: Alan Mackenzie wrote: Python (if I am not right, I am sure there exist other examples of this case) as of now seems to still depend on Visual C being compiled on Windows and still causing problems being compiled with MinGW. Is that

a list of software compiled by completely free toolchain

2009-11-12 Thread Gabriel Striewe
Hello all, Python (if I am not right, I am sure there exist other examples of this case) as of now seems to still dependĀ on Visual C being compiled on Windows and still causing problems being compiled with MinGW. Now, assuming that providing open source software on Windows doesn't give Windows an

Re: a list of software compiled by completely free toolchain

2009-11-12 Thread Alan Mackenzie
'Evening, Gabriel! Gabriel Striewe li...@gabriel-striewe.de wrote: [-- text/plain, encoding quoted-printable, charset: UTF-8, 38 lines --] Hello all, Python (if I am not right, I am sure there exist other examples of this case) as of now seems to still depend on Visual C being compiled on

Re: a list of software compiled by completely free toolchain

2009-11-12 Thread Gabriel Striewe
Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de hat am 12. November 2009 um 22:47 geschrieben: 'Evening, Gabriel! Gabriel Striewe li...@gabriel-striewe.de wrote: [-- text/plain, encoding quoted-printable, charset: UTF-8, 38 lines --] Hello all, Python (if I am not right, I am sure there exist other

Re: a list of software compiled by completely free toolchain

2009-11-12 Thread Rjack
Alan Mackenzie wrote: 'Evening, Gabriel! Gabriel Striewe li...@gabriel-striewe.de wrote: [-- text/plain, encoding quoted-printable, charset: UTF-8, 38 lines --] Hello all, Python (if I am not right, I am sure there exist other examples of this case) as of now seems to still depend on

Re: a list of software compiled by completely free toolchain

2009-11-12 Thread Gabriel Striewe
Rjack u...@example.net hat am 13. November 2009 um 00:10 geschrieben: Alan Mackenzie wrote: 'Evening, Gabriel! Gabriel Striewe li...@gabriel-striewe.de wrote: [-- text/plain, encoding quoted-printable, charset: UTF-8, 38 lines --] Hello all, Python (if I am not right, I am

Re: a list of software compiled by completely free toolchain

2009-11-12 Thread Tim Smith
In article mailman.10619.1258071614.2239.gnu-misc-disc...@gnu.org, Gabriel Striewe li...@gabriel-striewe.de wrote: But didn't that enable Apple to use most of the software the BSD project has written, without Apple being obliged to give something back? In fact, Apple gave a *huge* amount

Re: a list of software compiled by completely free toolchain

2009-11-12 Thread Tim Smith
In article hdhvp3$2nr...@colin2.muc.de, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: Is that really true? Aren't there any free C compilers native to Windows? Hasn't GCC been targeted at Windows native? Watcom C/C++ was made open source quite a while back. Perhaps it would work for this.