From: Tobias Peters <tpeters@...>
Date: 2002-10-25T21:04:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Visual C++ controversy

On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, MikkelFJ wrote:
> I believe you can download the non-optimizing compiler with the .NET SDK,
> but then you do not get the debugger (AFAIK), and the download is 100MB+.

A warning: This SDK will not run on Win 95/98/ME.

> I'd like to know more about how well mingw integrates with the Visual C++
> Ruby distribution. My guess is the only significant problem is the
> extconf.rb setup, thus it would be nice to be able to choose a compiler
> through a switch.

It would be useful, yes. How would you gather the compiler settings for 
the respective other compiler?

> In any case, it is very useful to have the Visual C++ debugger.
gdb is also nice...

Tobias