> Assuming that we will try to ditch MSVC in favor of mingw on Windows, Not MinGW on Windows, but MinGW as cross-compiler from Linux (or from some other Unix).
If you are building *on* Windows, use MSVC, is my opinion. OOo thinks differently; they do/did try to support compiling using MinGW on Windows (and they haven't done any cross-compilation efforts at all AFAIK). > will we require people hacking on Windows to use mingw exclusively? I don't think we want to intentionally prevent the code from building with MSVC, even when at 4.0 we (hopefully) start distributing a cross-compiled build. > Also, does mingw do platform specific optimization as well as MSVC does? No idea, presumably not. > How will one debug LibreOffice on Windows? gdb? Yeah, horrible in many ways compared to Visual Studio. > I assume using Visual Studio as a debugging tool is out the window (no > pun intended)? I *think* I have heard people talk about some add-on trick to make Visual Studio understand also MInGW-generated debugging info. --tml _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
