From: retupmoca
Subject: Re: Compiling ECL (embeddable common lisp) with MinGW
Date: 
Message-ID: <1137103275.736201.93530@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>
I don't know why it isn't compiling with MinGW, but the Microsoft tools
are free.
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Programming/Other-Programming-Files/Microsoft-Visual-C-Toolkit.shtml
I needed the platform sdk and the .net sdk as well.

From: Frank Buss
Subject: Re: Compiling ECL (embeddable common lisp) with MinGW
Date: 
Message-ID: <1bbi7jlupy1iq$.12oxi1eqr5naa$.dlg@40tude.net>
retupmoca wrote:

> I don't know why it isn't compiling with MinGW, but the Microsoft tools
> are free.
> http://www.softpedia.com/get/Programming/Other-Programming-Files/Microsoft-Visual-C-Toolkit.shtml
> I needed the platform sdk and the .net sdk as well.

Maybe I'm overcautious, but I would download it only from
http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/vctoolkit2003/

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From: Pascal Bourguignon
Subject: Re: Compiling ECL (embeddable common lisp) with MinGW
Date: 
Message-ID: <87oe2g6hej.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com>
"retupmoca" <·········@gmail.com> writes:

> I don't know why it isn't compiling with MinGW, but the Microsoft tools
> are free.

No. They are gratis. You don't have their sources, so you cannot check
that they don't include a trojan in all generated executable.

You need to read once more: http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html

Of course, of you only compiled gcc (with gcc)* with gcc, you couldn't
be 100% sure that there is no trojan from the first mother cell, but
I'd still trust it a tad more than any closed source software.

> http://www.softpedia.com/get/Programming/Other-Programming-Files/Microsoft-Visual-C-Toolkit.shtml
> I needed the platform sdk and the .net sdk as well.


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