Re: [freesci-develop] State of Glutton on Win32

[James Albert]

Walter van Niftrik wrote:
> I know I've said this before, but I think it would be better to switch 
> to mingw for the windows port. That way we could integrate it into the 
> automake/autoconf system. Another point is that Visual Studio is very 
> expensive software and this severely limits the number of people that 
> might be able to help out with the windows port.

I agree, and I've been looking into it.  I'm using the edition of MSVC I 
got from college, and it's starting to show it's age.  On the other 
hand, you'd be surprised how widely supported Visual Studio is.  Most of 
the Open Source software I've come across supports MSVC if it supports 
windows at all.

I've used a platform called devcpp by bloodshed software in the past, 
but switching the configurations from MSVC to it is complicated - 
Obviously FreeSCI needs a number of SDK's to compile, but devcpp won't 
recognize my installed SDK's no matter how I set it's path options. 
devcpp allows you to download bundled SDK's specifically for devcpp, but 
having two copies of every library on my system isn't an ideal solution 
for me.

I'll play around with it today and let everybody know the results.

- Jim