Pedro <pedlino <at> gmail.com> writes: > In my opinion TDF and LibreOffice should abandon the MS compiler and support > the switch to MinGW which has already been started by Jan Holesovsky (aka > Kendy)
Actually the work to support MinGW was started already back in Sun/Oracle OOo times, and then continued for LO especially (and only) in the form of support for MinGW cross-compilation, by me and Kendy. > This would also open the path to using MinGW64 and therefore the creation of > a native 64bit version of LO... Well, glueing wings onto cows doesn't make them fly; there is also C++/UNO bridge code to write for this particular copiler/platform combination, and an unknown amount of other details here and there. Presumably it shouldn't be that different from the 64-bit MSVC work (modulo assembler syntax and whatnot), but that is not complete either. > The fact that it is a requirement to use a specific proprietary compiler to > compile a FLOSS program makes the same sense as offering a free complete car > (wheels, tires, etc) but to assemble it you would need to buy a wrench which > is sold by a single company... Car analogies are stupid. --tml -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
