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

[Sheldon T. Hall]

Shel's wife Abra here - would someone be so kind as to unsubscribe Shel from
this list? Since he died his computer has been flooded with 784 Sun Rescue
messages. Thanks! 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rescue-bounces at sunhelp.org 
> [mailto:rescue-bounces at sunhelp.org] On Behalf Of Toby Thain
> Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2014 6:43 PM
> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [rescue] MSVC on WINE - was Re: Has 
> freshmeat.net disappeared forever?
> 
> On 26/06/14 10:23 AM, Joshua Boyd wrote:
> > On June 25, 2014 7:34:53 AM EDT, Toby Thain 
> <toby at telegraphics.com.au> wrote:
> >> 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.
> >
> > That is really interesting. My preferred method for sanely building
> for windows is to use a Linux builds off mingw and cross 
> compile from Linux, although some libraries can be a pain to 
> cross compile.
> 
> It became my preferred win32/win64 build environment as well 
> (I could cross-build 64 bit from a 32 bit Linux box), using 
> NMAKE makefiles and MSVC. Partly because I was previously 
> using mingw32 on the same box.
> 
> --Toby
> 
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