[Coin-discuss] Native Windows build

[marco tacconi]

Hi Ted,

> Marco,
> 
> Thanks for pointing this out. We have recently discovered the same
> solution and are in the process of modifying the current build system,
> so that it will work "out of the box" with MinGW. In fact, it should
> even be possible to build COIN using the the MinGW "make" utility with
> the native Microsoft compiler, available as part of the free Microsoft
> Visual C++ Toolkit (for those who don't have the Visual C++ IDE). 
> UsingMinGW in combination with the open source Eclipse IDE provides 
> a Windows
> development environment roughly like Visual C++. Also in the works 
> is a
> binary distribution, so stay tuned for that.
Sure!
 
> By the way, it's not that clear on the MinGW Web site, but there is a
> single GUI installer you can download that will install all of the
> required tools automatically:
> 
> http://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/MinGW-5.0.2.exe?download
Thank you for this information.

> If you also install MSys, a lightweight bash shell environment, you 
> willbe able to use standard Unix commands on the Windows command line.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Ted
>