Re: Visual Studio 2012 RC

On 01/27/2013 02:48 PM, james wrote:
>> Anyway, this is getting way off track. The point is that the MS SDKs and
>> compilers are a bit of a mess and that MinGW support is useful because
>> we can't rely on them continuing to offer free SDKs and compilers in 
>> future.
>
> Well, more compilers are always useful, but complaining that Microsoft 
> might withdraw their working compilers smacks of 'what if?' paranoia. 
> What if mingw support for Win64 was (sometimes/often/always/still) a 
> bit rubbish?  Oh wait ...
>

On the contrary, only a few months ago there was a far from groundless 
fear that Microsoft would do just that. Following considerable outcry 
they changed their mind. But this is definitely not just paranoia. As 
for w64 support, the mingw-64 project exists more or less explicitly to 
produce 64 bit compilers, including those hosted on mingw/msys.

cheers

andrew