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

[Jonathan Morgan]

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 6:54 AM, 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.
>
> 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 :)

Has anyone tried it on VS C++ Express, which is free? (before anyone
asks, yes I do understand the difference between gratis and libre).
If not, are there any good reasons to expect it wouldn't work?

Jon