[sword-devel] Autotools Bug?

[Ben Morgan]

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Jonathan Marsden <jmarsden at fastmail.fm>wrote:

>
> Probably.  Proprietary development environments like this are just not
> often seen as critical targets for open source tools, I would think.


> Especially when it's not really clear what the benefits of MSVC and
> Borland over gcc would be at the end of the day... will the resulting
> app work differently?  Better?  Faster?  Or is this just a matter of
> personal choice for the developer?

MSVC is (I believe) faster, produces smaller and faster executables, etc.
BPBible sword bindings are compiled with MSVC.

Additionally, MSYS and (I believe) Cygwin are horrible environments to try
to use... (I haven't used Cygwin, but I have used MSYS)

God Bless,
Ben
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