Re: More on MinGW build

[J. Luis]

> Well, you'll have to do it. The beauty of free software is that you
> *can* do it. It requires effort, no doubt, but it can be done.
> And mingw is not that messy as it probably looks to you.
> The distribution scheme the mingw project chose is IMO perfectly
> suitable. There is a non-trivial activation energy required to get it
> up&  running, but it pays back.

Thanks for the infos. I'll go back to it when  I have more time.
I know about free software and its tools. I just had very bad past 
experiences with MinGW where after a little, nothing really worked out 
of the box and I had to go find and build something else that was 
missing. The last time was yesterday with the examples I mentioned in 
first mail.
And I DO contribute. If GMT will be available to use in Octave, a part 
of it is my work. If GDAL is going to usable, a big part of it is my work.