Ross Berteig wrote: [...] > For self-contained applications, I find MinGW along with their port of > Gnu Make to be the right balance of programmer-friendly old-school > building with broad compatibility over all 32-bit Windows platforms for > the generated executables. Add MSYS and you can often get OSS libraries > to just ./configure && make without many issues. It's worth mentioning that MingW is also portable; I've got a Windows build of WordGrinder in the pipeline that's primarily cross-compiled from Linux, winres and all --- and the *same* pmfile will build the same binary on Windows with cygwin. [...] > However, getting MinGW to properly link against MSVCR80.DLL (or any of > the newer MS CRT flavors) remains a bit of a pain. I had absolutely no trouble with this --- I just compiled it and it worked. There don't even seem to be any dependencies on the MingW runtime DLL. I'm not well up on Windows toolchains, so I could well be making a static executable, but the entire program comes out as a single 266kB binary --- and that includes a Lua interpreter and 5600 lines of Lua bytecode embedded in it. -- ┌─── ｄｇ＠ｃｏｗｌａｒｋ．ｃｏｍ ───── http://www.cowlark.com ───── │ │ "All power corrupts, but we need electricity." --- Diana Wynne Jones, │ _Archer's Goon_
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