I totaly agree with your path all all BCC/owatcom users will easy recompile harbour from source better having userbase focaluzed on Two compiler that give more reliability to entire project
2009/3/26 Viktor Szakáts <harbour...@syenar.hu>: >> Hi agree about importance of give a choice and agree mingw/msvc path >> can we follow Minigui that include harbour & MinGW to be ready to use >> for windows platform? > > I don't know MiniGUI, so I cannot tell. > What is possible though is to provide such a binary distribution > which is based on MinGW, contains MinGW binaries and also > includes MSVC libs. Such package is a self-contained one being > able to create executables without any external tools, it also has > GNU Make, and it's also possible to use it with MSVC and even > POCC if someone has these installed. > I'll check if I can make hbmk2 detect such embedded mingw > installation automatically. > Such package is a 42MB .zip, and if this seems to be okay for > everyone such package may replace our current compiler > dependent distros, by the simple names of: > harbour-1.1.0-win-x86.zip > harbour-1.1.0-win-x86.exe > harbour-1.1.0-win-x64.zip > harbour-1.1.0-win-x64.exe > harbour-1.1.0-wince-arm.zip > harbour-1.1.0-wince-arm.exe > I think such distros would send a much better message > towards users and give them a much better service. Of course, > all BCC/owatcom users will have to migrate to above proper > compilers to be able to follow. > Opinions? > Brgds, > Viktor > > _______________________________________________ > Harbour mailing list > Harbour@harbour-project.org > http://lists.harbour-project.org/mailman/listinfo/harbour > > -- Massimo Belgrano _______________________________________________ Harbour mailing list Harbour@harbour-project.org http://lists.harbour-project.org/mailman/listinfo/harbour
