[bt-devel] Windows development toolchain choice (was: Re: Windows installer tool choice)

[Greg Hellings]

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Jonathan Marsden <jmarsden at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> Greg wrote:
>
>> Ideally we'd get MinGW working, as many people have said, then we'd
>> have a truly free development system, but the CLucene people would
>> have to be consulted on that, or at least someone who feels like
>> tracking down the bugs I've observed in those headers with the MinGW
>> and other GCC-for-Windows compilers I've tried.
>
> I'm not in any way officially a part of the BT development team, and
> given other time-consuming (and mental-energy-consuming) things in my
> world at the moment, I can't currently commit to really joining it or
> having regular time to spend on BT.
>
> However, I am interested in this, and have privately made a few small
> steps in this general direction.  If (this is a very BIG IF!) I do ever
> get CLucene to compile under MinGW, either on Windows or cross-compiling
> it from Linux, I'll let the list know.  And if anyone else starts
> investigating this, I'd appreciate their letting me know, so we can
> combine our efforts rather than duplicating them.

I have compiled and built CLucene under MinGW/MSYS many times - that's
not the problem.  The problem appears when the headers are included
from BibleTime.

>
> Seeing something as free and freeing as a GPLed bible application start
> to become dependent on an expensive closed proprietary toolchain...
> well, let's just say that doesn't feel "right" to me ... but until I can
> put the time in working on a free toolchain instead, I can't really
> complain too loudly :)

Likewise - and I think that most of the list feels the same way.
However, if we can't figure it out, we're pretty much stuck at this
point.

--Greg

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> Jonathan
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