[Mapserver-users] MapServer 3.7 / Win32 / GD2

[Norman Vine]

Jan Hartmann writes:
> 
> That's something I have been wanting to ask for some time. Can you use 
> MingW32 as a complete replacement for VC++ (at least for MapServer and 
> dependancies)? 

C libraries are ABI compatable
C++ libraries are not and need to be compiled with the target compiler

> Are the executables independent from any Unix emulation, 

Yes, MingW uses the MSC libraries directly

> and are they as fast as VC-compiled stuff? 

They are fast enough for me, whether they are faster
or slower depends :-)

Norman