GDC installers

[Anders F Björklund]

Vincenzo Ampolo wrote:

>> Once the project has been successfully restarted,
>> some new installers could be made - if desired ?
> 
> Of course we would like to support all the operating system you 
> listed. But i see two main problems on it:
> 
> 1) developers, we are not too much, but we are rising ;)

Not easy to fill the shoes of David Friedman, I suppose :)

He was supporting all those systems, and a few others too.
Like SkyOS and Solaris, not sure if they matter any longer.

> 2) resources. Eg. i don't have any apple pc and i'm not planning to 
> buy one. until there is no developer with a mac and with MAC OS X i 
> dubt we can add a better support. For windows is different, 
> virtualizzation with virtualbox is trivial.

Fortunately one doesn't need Windows to use the MinGW GCC...

For instance Fedora comes with support for targeting Windows:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Windows_cross_compiler

> As all the time, we will try to do our best to match requirements and 
> resources :)
> 
> As soon as a relevant goal is reached (as gcc 4.4.x support) we will 
> do a release (according to David of course!). 

I can and have build for Mac OS X 10.5 and Windows Vista,
but not for Mac OS X 10.6 and not for Windows 7 either...


However, it would need separate GCC patches compared to
the regular GCC 4.4.x, for MinGW GCC and for Apple GCC.

The MinGW GCC should be very similar to the regular GCC,
while the Apple GCC is more similar to the LLVM GCC...

--anders