Re: [tdf-discuss] Compiling in Windows

[Jesús Corrius <jesus@softcatala.org>]

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 4:22 PM, plino <pedlino@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm not a programmer but something is puzzling me: why is LibreOffice
> compiled with MS VC++ compiler? This forces the installer to include the
> VC++ runtimes...
>
> Wouldn't it make more sense to use the FOSS compiler MinGW?

It's also possible to compile it with the MS VC++ compiler without the
VC++ runtimes :)

There are plans to use MinGW to compile LibreOffice in the future, but
for now it's experimental and unstable, and we still need to do a lot
of work and testing before we can ship it. But we will do it in the
long term.

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Jesús Corrius <jesus@softcatala.org>
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