From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2006-07-22T00:22:11+09:00
Subject: Re: One-Click Installer: MinGW? or VC2005?

On 7/18/06, Tanner Burson <tanner.burson@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think this is a fairly valid point though, and plays a point in this
> discussion.  Which of the two compiler tool chains, (as that is as much what
> we're talking about as compilers themselves) will make it easiest for
> extension and library providers to get binary installs on windows?  My
> feeling is that MinGW will make it easier for people that already provide
> extensions/libs on *nix to provide the same in Windows.  The tool chain is
> the same or at least close enough to keep people sane.

Not quite. MinGW won't give you 64-bit Windows support. At all.
Probably not for another year or more, given that no one seems to be
working on it at this point.

The better question is not "easier"; the better question is "which
will give me *better*" binary results? The answer to that nearly every
time will be the Microsoft toolchain.

-austin
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