On 01/24/2013 02:41 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:


What advantages does mingw have over MSVC?  Is it just that it is
cost-free, or is it easier to use mingw than MSVC for someone used to
building on Linux?  (mingw certainly does not seem to have the
advantage of being fast!)

See Craig's email today about problems with SDKs and availabilty of


Not sure what happened there.

... availability of free 64 bit MSVC compilers.

Also, some third party libraries are built with the Mingw compilers and it's often best not to switch if you can help it.



Would you like to put this somewhere on wiki.postgresql.org, or would
you mind if I do so?

Please go for it.

cheers

andrew



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