Alex Fenton
3/3/2009 8:49:00 AM
Roger Pack wrote:
> Could I make a plea for 1.9 windows users to try to consolidate on
> mingw, versus other compilers? Cross It would make it easier , and have
> less targets for binary distributables [and they're easier, thanks to
> Luis' cross compiler [1]].
I'm +1 on that, in theory. Having different 1.9 builds for Windows
washing about makes it more difficult to provide pre-built gems.
MingW is familiar for those using gcc on other platforms; the main
downside I've found is that the support tools (eg gdb) are a bit flaky
at the moment. Eg gdb sometimes exits unexpectedly while debugging, and
the key entry/prompt/shell gets muddled easily.
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