Re: Depending on C99 (Re: GtkBindingSignal changes)

[Hans Breuer <hans breuer org>]

On 05.01.2006 20:58, Roger Leigh wrote:
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> Hans Breuer <hans breuer org> writes:
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> > Have you used any of the MS compilers to compile at least Glib?
> > The last free (as in in beer) version did not support linking with
> > the C-runtine as DLL at all.
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> No.  I've built everything from Glib up to some GNOME libs quite a
> number of times with both Cygwin and MinGW, however.  GCC works
> perfectly well, and can be binary compatible with the MS libraries
> should you require it.
I know.

> > Why not simply drop usage of anything else than the latest GCC?
> > And ony be portable to differnt flavours of Linux? *No* NOT serious.
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> Support for obsolete, non-standard and proprietary compilers is not
> particularly compelling for me as a free software developer,
> particuarly when it prevents the use of beneficial features of the C
> language as standardised by ISO.
Partitally agreed. But most of the C99 feature to me look like some
backports from C++. So I'm not weighting them too much. And instead
prefer the real thing as in C++ (not only) a better C.

> I'm aware that quite a number of folks use MSVC to develop proprietary
> applications, but I do have to question whether the long-term
> detrimental effects of being tied to it outweigh being stuck in the
> past.  I would be interested to know how many of the existing MSVC
> users can't use GCC.
Me. At some point in time I managed to have a somewhat working build
environment with mingw. See: http://hans.breuer.org/gtk/build.html

But I never was able to reproduce it with a newer version. Also I still
highly prefer the use of the MS debugger than all the alternatives I've
tried.
IMHO for real development (not just compiling something, that others
have made work) a working debugger is quite useful.

	Hans

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