Re: [libmicrohttpd] Feature request: ARM support for windows builds

[Evgeny Grin]

Hi Rosen,

Short answer:
For additional portability. GNU libmicrohttpd is very portable.

Longer answer:
Windows is the only (popular) platform without native support for 
POSIX-compatible Bourne shell and POSIX-compatible make. All other 
(popular) platforms support Bourne shell and make natively, so 
libmicrohttpd can be easily built with just native tools and compiler 
(with toolchain).
On Windows, many developers (especially beginners) have only Visual 
Studio installed as a build system. These Windows devs can build MHD 
without installing any additional tools.

Potentially a VS-compiled binary might have better compatibility with 
other VS-compiled binaries, however I'm not sure if this has any 
practical impact for MHD.

--
Evgeny


On 02.05.2023 11:16, Rosen Penev wrote:
> > On May 2, 2023, at 10:26 AM, Evgeny Grin <k2k@narod.ru> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Antonis,
> >
> > ARM and ARM64 support has been added for Visual Studio builds.
> Out of curiosity, why are there multiple build systems?

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