Frank Barknecht schrieb:
Hallo, Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
I have started trying to port parts of Pd to MinGW. It would be great if ultimately all of Pd would compile in MinGW so that Windows devs would have to buy (or ahem, "buy") a compiler.
"would not"?
That would be great, as I do have acces to windows machines, of course, but I cannot and don't want to install expensive or software that I, ahem, "buyed" there, to compile my externals for other users.
You could try Microsoft .NET Framework SDK which is free (!) and can be downloaded somewhere on the Microsoft web site.... I haven't tried it since I have VC++ but it is said to include everything one needs to compile ones own software. Not shure whether this is a joke!?
See here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/downloads/list/netdevfram...
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=9B3A2CA6-3647-4070-...
On http://www.thefreecountry.com/compilers/cpp.shtml is says:
"Unbelievably, the Microsoft Visual C/C++ command line compiler, along with C#, VB.NET and JScript.NET, appears to be available from Microsoft for download for free. (Note that if you use the Opera web browser to go to this URL, set Opera to pretend that it is Mozilla (just hit F12 and select Mozilla 5.0), otherwise Microsoft's web server will redirect you to a dummy page. Their browser detection script, which serves different pages to different browsers, is broken.) You will also need to download the Microsoft Platform SDK which contains the Windows headers and libraries for the compilers. The command line compiler is the same one that comes with the commercial Visual C++ Standard, which means that it does not have an optimizer (or at least, not the optimizer that ships with the Professional version that comes with MSDN)."
Olaf