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

[Rosen Penev]

> On May 2, 2023, at 12:22 PM, Evgeny Grin <k2k@narod.ru> wrote:
> 
> 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.
Sure. Newer versions of VS also have built in CMake support. CMake also 
supports generating VS project files instead of the custom ones here.

There’s also meson which doesn’t have as much IDE support.
> 
> -- 
> 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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