[Box Backup-dev] Hello all - win32 client

[Chris Wilson]

Hi Gary,

> You would have to ask Chris, but I think mingw is a native Win32 
> compiler.

It is. I run it under Cygwin, to get a nice shell and the necessary build 
environment, but it might be possible to compile with the official MinGW 
release and MSYS, which would then not require the developer to install 
Cygwin.

> It would be useful, however, if we used the same environment 
> for all build/compile. VS2K5 would get my vote (it is, after all, most 
> widely used and most widely tested under Win32). There is even a free 
> edition these days :).

It would be useful if I liked VS2K5 more :-) As it is, I can and sometimes 
do compile with it, but I don't test such builds very often because I 
can't distribute them, due to the license and the size of the 
redistributable. Patches are welcome :-)

I would be surprised if VS2K5 was the most widely used compiler for 
Windows, considering its young age, the problems with Intellisense (which 
frequently crash the IDE until manually disabled), and the number of 
requests for help with different versions of Visual Studio on the 
wxWidgets mailing list.

If you meant Visual Studio generally, then I agree, although I think more 
open source projects use MinGW than use Visual Studio.

Cheers, Chris.
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