From: sfinks (sfinks2_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-11-27 02:01:14
Larry Smith wrote:
> sfinks wrote:
>
>>hasn't anyone really at least tried to compile boost with linux+mingw ?
>
>
> No. Why would one do that, since mingw is
> for Windows, not Linux?
>
> On linux we use the gcc/g++ provided with the distro.
>
> On Windows we use MSVC v7 & v8. My personal machine
> is setup for dual-boot (Windows on the first physical drive,
> various Linux distro's on the other physical drives).
> I've never tried mingw on Windows, but here is its
> definition from the MinGW home page:
>
> "A collection of freely available and freely distributable
> Windows specific header files and import libraries combined
> with GNU toolsets that allow one to produce native Windows
> programs that do not rely on any 3rd-party C runtime DLLs."
>
> I would expect nothing but trouble tyring to use mingw
> on non-Windows platforms.
>
> Larry
For example VLC ( http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
http://wiki.videolan.org/index.php/Win32Compile ) is officialy compiled
with linux+mingw . wxWidgets ( wxMSW, http://www.wxwidgets.org/ )
compiles from out-of-the-box under mingw, and compiled examples all run
ideally. So no trouble acctually ...