Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Will win64 native build exist on 3.5.0 or at least 3.5.x releases?

Hi Pedro and Tor,

I forgot to mention another two win32/win64 big and famous open source 
appliances:

- MySql (!)
http://www.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/#downloads

- PostgreSql (!)
http://www.postgresql.org/download/windows

About PostgreSql (that I installed, I used, I designed, I used to 
develop appliances (SQL, Pg-Pl/Sql) in the past) there is a very 
interesting page that could also help us
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/64bit_Windows_port

that was about the win32 -> win64 port. Since version 9.0, EnterpriseDB 
deploy and make it available both windows installers and builds (win32 
and win64).

What do yuo think about that?

Have a nice evening,

Carlo

Il 02/11/2011 20:22, Carlo Strata ha scritto:
> Hi Pedro,
>
>
> Il 02/11/2011 13:19, Pedro ha scritto:
> > In my opinion TDF and LibreOffice should abandon the MS compiler and 
> > support
> > the switch to MinGW which has already been started by Jan Holesovsky 
> > (aka
> > Kendy)
>
> I think we could put here, at least, the links:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MinGW
> http://www.mingw.org/
> http://mingw-w64.sourceforge.net/
>
> for interested people...
>
> > This would also open the path to using MinGW64 and therefore the 
> > creation of
> > a native 64bit version of LO...
>
> I follow some and various FLOSS projects that are both and natively 
> win32/win64 like these:
>
> http://7-zip.org/
> http://infrarecorder.org/   (If I don't remember wrong, it use MinGW.)
> http://www.virtualdub.org/
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/free-cad/ and 
> http://free-cad.sourceforge.net/
> ...
>
> and some that try to go win64 too, but without official courage, 
> bravery, fearlessness
> http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-mozilla-central/ 
>
> ...
>
> and some that are not trying at all
> http://filezilla-project.org
> http://notepad-plus-plus.org/
> ...
>
> Could we understand and learn somethings from above projects' choices 
> and code?
>
> > The fact that it is a requirement to use a specific proprietary 
> > compiler to
> > compile a FLOSS program makes the same sense as offering a free 
> > complete car
> > (wheels, tires, etc) but to assemble it you would need to buy a 
> > wrench which
> > is sold by a single company...
>
> There are pros and cons to use Microsoft native and MinGW/GW64 
> compilers and libs, I suppose.
>
> > Just my 2 cents.
> Have a nice evening,
>
> Carlo

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