Yes, but GCC on Windows requires MinGW right? Is that less onerous than Cygwin? In theory we should already have Cygwin or some unix shell to run Mustella.
-Alex On 6/3/14 8:27 AM, "Nicholas Kwiatkowski" <nicho...@spoon.as> wrote: >Alex, > >I use GCC to make my native extensions. GCC is available on both Mac and >Windows (and Linux) and is not a heavy requirement to compile. You don't >need Visual Studio to compile .DLLs on Windows. >http://quetwo.com/2011/10/31/creating-an-windows-air-native-extension-with >-eclipse-part-1/ > >-Nick > > > >On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 12:49 AM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: > >> Well, I'm new to Native Extensions as well, but it appears you can't >> create a single extension that works on both OSX and Windows. Folks >>seem >> to be using Visual Studio for Windows and Xcode for Mac. That seems >>like >> a lot of work and a complicated build environment. The nice thing about >> the CrossBridge code is that it can be one cross-platform project. I'm >> going to look into where the cygwin dependencies are in CrossBridge and >> see if they can be removed, unless someone knows of a way to simplify >>the >> Native Extension development. >> >> -Alex >> >> On 6/2/14 2:35 PM, "Alex Harui" <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: >> >> >In theory, all PMC members with Windows computers have Cygwin or some >> >shell script processor in place otherwise they cannot run Mustella. >> > >> >We could create a separate release package like we did for PixelBender, >> >but seriously, how many of you are going to build the installer from >> >sources? >> > >> >I'll look into a intel-only NativeExtension version of MD5 next. >> > >> >-Alex >> > >> >On 6/2/14 2:20 PM, "Michael A. Labriola" <labri...@digitalprimates.net> >> >wrote: >> > >> >>> -1 for Cygwin too :-( >> >> >> >> >> >>Something to note for Windows Users, if you install git bash (which is >> >>generally part of the windows install for git) you can use it in >>place of >> >>Cygwin. It might be a much easier way for us to move forward instead >>of >> >>requiring Cygwin. >> >> >> >>Mike >> > >> >>
