Re: [Texmacs-dev] Re: C++'s frustrations

[Vadim Konovalov]

Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
> Henri Lesourd wrote:
> >  Probably under Linux it works most of the time,
>
> _always_
>
> >  and under windows
> >  it's more often broken:
>
> MSVC is really the defacto standard (KDE, python, LyX, etc all use it).

Very surprising information

Now TexMacs on Windows available only under Cygwin, and no MSVC is 
standard there.

> I don't see the problem here. In any case, I think, but I am not sure, 
> Borland and Intel compilers are compatible while Mingw's g++-3.2 is 
> not (not sure about recent version of g++). So yes, I think that 
> choosing either MSVC or Mingw would be a hard requirement for plugin  
> developer. Or you can just see those two compilers as two different 
> platforms and deliver a TeXMacs binary for both. That is exactly what 
> the KDE on Windows people do by the way.

Given that GCC already used for texmacs, why is it a problem to continue 
using it on windows?


BR,
Vadim.