From: Alexander Kellett <ruby-lists@...>
Date: 2004-10-29T17:56:22+09:00
Subject: Re: How to install the free compiler for Windows

On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 05:48:59PM +0900, gabriele renzi wrote:
> are'nt MS' compiler and VC the same thing? :)

erm. oops yes :) i meant gcc vs m$

> indeed, people told me many times that VC7 is really fast.

k. thought so. good enough reason for me. thanks :)

> Anyway, I guess the primary reason is to allow compilation of extensions 
> that easily interoperate with the onceclick installer (mingw somewhat 
> works, but not everytime)

won't this cause problems with extensions that need unix 
specific stuff? or should they just be ported in any case?

heard that mingw latest version has very few interoperability
problems. however i'd like qt bindings for windows and i'm not
certain that mingw specific libs exist and i guess it'll be easier 
to get stuff working using the vc stuff therefore. does limit
build env. to windows admittedly but i doubt thats gonna be a
real problem.

Alex