Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!selfless.tophat.at!news.glorb.com!newsfeeds.ihug.co.nz!lust.ihug.co.nz!ihug.co.nz!not-for-mail From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: =?UTF-8?B?QW5kcm9pZOKAlFdoeQ==?= Dalvik? Followup-To: comp.lang.java.programmer Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2011 15:05:22 +1200 Organization: Geek Central Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 118-92-86-36.dsl.dyn.ihug.co.nz Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit X-Trace: lust.ihug.co.nz 1306897522 1393 118.92.86.36 (1 Jun 2011 03:05:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@ihug.co.nz NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 03:05:22 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: KNode/4.4.11 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:4838 In message , BGB wrote: > but, my experience is mostly with Windows, where autoconf/configure > tends not to even work much of the time with "blessed" environments, > such as Cygwin and MinGW. Free Software in general seems to be troublesome on Windows. > also, it is another problem if one tends to use MSVC and needs to build > with MSVC to use the library in a project compiled with MSVC ... Using MSVC brings its own share of problems. I remember on the Python group, if you wanted to build a C/C++ extension for Python, you had to compile it with the exact same version of MSVC as was used for that version of Python, otherwise it wouldn’t work. Windows as a whole just doesn’t seem to be set up for collaborative software development.