On 08/20/2010 10:48:17 AM, Gert Doering wrote:
> The app is cross-compileable today - but to make that work requires
> that
> all relevant Windows APIs are exported in mingw headers *and
> libraries*.
>
> Windows APIs have the nasty habit of changing over time, so if mingw
> stops updating their libraries etc., OpenVPN would be sort of stuck
> to the old APIs - which might turn into a problem. Or might not. We
> don't know...
You could also say that, for instance,
gcc might not keep up-to-date and it'd be better to use, say,
the Intel compiler which is faster anyway. What makes
mingw different from gcc? It is really in such danger?
I've had fewer problems with open source projects being
discontinued than I have had with proprietary products.
Karl <k...@meme.com>
Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward."
-- Robert A. Heinlein
