[bt-devel] Windows development toolchain choice

[Gary Holmlund]

Jonathan Morgan wrote:
> 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
>   
Yes. I have been using VS 2008 Express and it works fine. I used the 
same instructions that Greg put on the wiki for VS 2008.

Gary