From: Lothar Scholz <mailinglists@...>
Date: 2004-04-20T11:46:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Free VC++ Compiler

Hello Mark,

Tuesday, April 20, 2004, 4:14:09 AM, you wrote:

MJR> Lothar Scholz <mailinglists@scriptolutions.com> writes:
>>No. The license forbids to use it to build and distribute GPL
>>applications. 

MJR> It does no such thing; that's just /. FUD.  What it forbids you to do is
MJR> redistribute the components if doing so would put them under the GPL, which
MJR> seems reasonable: "you can use our compiler for free, but you can't make
MJR> our DLLs fall under the GPL by redistributing them with GPL code."

So compiling against the static version of "msvcrt.lib" is okay ?

But unfortunately there are a few memory leaks when doing this,
at least _beginthread, _beginthreadEx are known to have problems in
the static version. And we must also compile all extension ".so" files
against the static lib, not really nice. So i think we still need
prebuild windows versions.

Or we use Open Watcom or/and Borland C++ for windows compilation.


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