[rescue] MSVC on WINE - was Re: Has freshmeat.net disappeared forever?

[Toby Thain]

On 25/06/14 12:17 AM, Mouse wrote:
>> Really, if you care about portability for C/C++, you should be
>> running your code through MSVC as well.
>
> And once I don't need to pay license fees to do so, I'll consider it
> (though probably decide against it; see below).

FWIW, the Microsoft CLI toolchain does run under WINE - not sure about 
the IDE - and there are (or were) Express editions that you could 
download freely.

--Toby

>
>> clang is designed to be gcc compatible,
>
> They rather fell down in a few respects, then; last I checked (which
> admittedly was a while ago) there were a handful of gcc features which
> they said they were unlikely to even try to add (including one, nested
> functions, which I use heavily).
>
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