On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 09:50 +0200, Guido Serassio wrote:

> VisualStudio and MinGW share the same compatibility problems: IPC, fd 
> <=> socket stuff, etc.

I know.

> But VisualStudio has two main pros:
> 
> - It's a well known (the best known I think) development environment 
> for Windows (here I'm thinking to Windows only developers)

Yes, this is what I mean with Visual Studio being Visual Studio..

> - The Runtime libraries used are recent, while MinGW uses the old 
> msvcrt.dll, born in 1998 ....

How much are we actually dependent on this runtime library?

> The major cons are the lack of autoconf/automake support and the 
> "project files bandwagon" .....

Is those working with mingw?

Regards
Henrik

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