<div>Hi Jonathan,</div>
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<div>Visual Studio is the best way to compile on Windows. I used to compile with mingw + msys, but the environment feels slow and clumsy, and it produces larger, slower executables. And Visual Studio is free - you can download the express editions.</div>
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<div>Visual Studio seems to me much easier to work with, compiles faster and produces better executables. Visual Studio also is much better supported than mingw.</div>
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<div>Your argument that you can't fix VC++ is I think irrelevant; it is very stable, and even if I do have something wrong in some software (VC++ or openoffice or whatever), I'm very unlikely to dive in and attempt to fix it. Being able to modify software doesn't greatly help me. </div>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">IMO it's really sad that anyone would choose an open source<br>cross-platform language such as Python, on top of an open source<br>
cross-platform library such as SWORD, and then deliberately restrict the<br>resulting application to just one OS. But it is your project, and so<br>entirely your choice.</blockquote>
<div>Python, though cross-platform, on Windows is built with Microsoft tools (as they are the best for purpose). Likewise, BPBible compiles SWORD with Microsoft tools, as they are the best. Mozilla/Firefox is likewise compiled on Windows with Microsoft tools, and mingw is a tier-2 platform for them.</div>
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<div>BPBible does work on linux, and I routinely run it on Linux. I've even run it on a Mac. But neither of these platforms is as well supported (i.e. binaries distributed) because most users are on windows (also because I don't know how to do packaging really for linux...)</div>
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<div>God Bless,<br>Ben<br>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Multitudes, multitudes,<br> in the valley of decision!<br>For the day of the LORD is near<br> in the valley of decision.<br>
<br>Giôên 3:14 (ESV) </div>