[Qgis-developer] GRASS support in MSVC build

[Benjamin Ducke]

Thanks for the explanations.
I'll look into that Express Edition.
One last thing I'd like to know:

Will it be possible to mix GRASS binaries and libs produced with MinGW
with QGIS MSVC bins?

Thanks,

Benjamin

Jürgen E. Fischer wrote:
> Hi Benjamin,
> 
> On Sat, 10. Nov 2007 at 11:34:05 +0100, Benjamin Ducke wrote:
>> Apologies for my ignorance, but what is the idea about having
>> an MSVC build of QGIS alongside the MinGW build? Does it not
>> cost a lot of additional effort to maintain two compiler bases?
> 
>> Does the MSVC build have any particular advantages over the
>> MinGW build, so that we can expect the MinGW path to be
>> abandoned in the future?
> 
> As Tim pointed out yesterday IRC on, why there is MSVC build:
> (quoted from http://logs.qgis.org/slogs/%23qgis.2007-11-09.log)
> 1) to attract the win crowd you got to give them their preferred brand of heroin
>    ie a development environment based on msvc
> 2) so far the msvc packages I made are a *lot* more compact (18mb vs 30mb for
>    openModeller)
> 3) because we can
> 4) if you are building some ms native app and want a mapping control you cant
>    easily just use the mingw libs if everything else you do is built using msvc
> 5) building with msvc has some advantages for debugging etc if you are a gui
>    addict
> 6) to attract venture capital from microsoft
> 
> Personally apart from 6, which I'd replace with masochims, I'd second that.
> 
> And I've to use MSVC for other windows projects anyway and find it's debugging
> and code browsing capabilities very useful.
> 
> Additionally using different compilers can improve code quality a bit as one
> compiler might issue warnings on things the others don't catch.
> 
>> If so, I for one will not be able to participate in the
>> development of the Win32 version of QGIS.
> 
> Why not?  You can use the Express Edition of MSVC, which is free (as in free
> beer).
> 
> Beeing at it, I don't know if Microsoft will continue to have free (as in free
> beer) Express Editions and alone for that reason the MinGW build shouldn't die.
> But I don't expect it too, anyway.
> 
> 
> Jürgen
> 

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