> Speaking with Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation) I understood that the > goal was to use only open source tools so you do not have to depend in any > way by the owners tools, such as Microsoft.
Bah. I don't agree with that. After all, we are talking about building software to run on a Microsoft's proprietary Windows OS. What difference does it then make if the tools used to build are open source or not? The main problem in building LibreOffice for Windows on Windows currently is that the *open source* stuff used in the build, i.e. Cygwin, is slow and causes random errors. The Microsoft compiler and linker work fine. If there was a way to use *only* Microsoft's own tools, cross-compiling for Windows from some Unix would be much less attractive. The ideal would be if Microsoft provided its tool-chain as cross-compilers running on Linux. Of course, it might also be that some people would see it as a good thing if the only compiler supported would be gcc. Sure, that would reduce the unpleasant tediousness of writing portable code. But whatever, I just work here. --tml _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
