[OT] Re: There's new GIT instructions on Github now

[Daniel Gibson]

Am 21.05.2011 07:12, schrieb Nick Sabalausky:
> "Daniel Gibson"<metalcaedes at gmail.com>  wrote in message
> news:ir6tel$1he8$13 at digitalmars.com...
>> Am 21.05.2011 01:18, schrieb Nick Sabalausky:
>>> "David Nadlinger"<see at klickverbot.at>  wrote in message
>>> news:ir6r72$l38$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>>> On 5/21/11 12:34 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>>>> And again, using Wine doesn't count as supporting Linux, so why the
>>>>> hell
>>>>> should the other way around be any different?
>>>>
>>>> Because, at least in my eyes, there is a huge difference between telling
>>>> your users that using Wine they might be able to get your software to
>>>> work
>>>> on Linux (which is typically the most you can hope for if you are a
>>>> Linux
>>>> user), and using MinGW to make porting your application to Windows
>>>> easier,
>>>> which is not necessarily visible to the end user.
>>>>
>>>
>>> OSS programs, which most Linux programs are, are expected to be
>>> compilable
>>> by the user. Therefore, if msys or mingw are required to build it, then
>>> it
>>> *is* visible to the end user.
>>
>> Compiling on Windows always sucks and is generally not done by the end
>> *user* (who generally is not a coder).
>> And I think it's easier for the user to install MinGW and MSYS and run
>> make than installing and configuring Visual Studio (especially when the
>> project is for another, maybe older, version) and use that for compiling.
>>
>
> My experience has been the other way around. Besides, a *lot* of windows
> programmers don't use Visual Studio. I don't. (Used to, back around versions
> 5-6 and early .NET, but not anymore.)
>

So how do you compile C/C++ code on windows? DMC? Fine for your code but 
I guess most open source projects don't support it.
Dev-C++, Eclpse CDT, ...? AFAIK they use the mingw compiler :P

> And with D, compiling is equally easy/hard on both Windows/Linux :)
>

If the projects uses GNU makefiles (which is quite common on Linux) you 
need MSYS or something like that to compile it on Windows.