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
