Hi Patrick,
I had success with mingw (using msys shell) and I think it's a better option than cygwin since it doesn't depend on any other dlls. There are some tricks to make it work with the windows command prompt since after installation it assumes it's a unix environment and tries to execute a shell script. You'll have to create a batch file for that in order to compile with gsc. I could compile standalone exes, libraries to load in the interpreter including Meroon object system. I compile with gsc from the command prompt (the interpreter and compiler have some display problems with msys) and afterwards I use bash to compile the generated C files with gcc. After a lot of work (trying different ways to do it) I finally got a standalone exe with Meroon included and some test classes. If you need any help to set it up let me know.
It does also work with Visual Studio 6 but you'll have to update the projects in the misc directory (they are old). I cannot comment on performance of the two different compilers, I only got some "line too long" errors in VS6 but it works. My choice was primarily based on the fact that mingw is open source and a lot of C libraries come with autoconf instead of VS projects.
Regards, Dan Hristodorescu.
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I'd like to run beta 12 on Win32. Is there a technical reason a system has not been built yet?
What would be the best way to build beta 12 for Win32? - Using an IDE config included in the distribution? - Using one of the Win32 shell scripts - Perhaps under Cygwin?
I assume gcc is the preferable compiler, so perhaps the best choice is DJGPP and perhaps Cygwin second choice. Has anyone tried Cygwin? A google was inconclusive.
Thanks, Patrick