Re: atk compiled using msvc6

["Hubert Sokolowski" <h sokolowski wsisiz edu pl>]

>  > I vote for making branches of gtk runtime environment, for example
>  > branches will be:
>  > 1. compiled using gcc with speed optimizations
>  > 2. compiled using gcc with size optimizations
>  > 3. compiled using msvc6
>
> Are you volunteering? Anybody is of course free to provide as many
> different builds of an Open Source software package as she likes.
Sorry, I don't own a licence for msvc6.

> But I don't understand why this would be needed for GTK on Windows,
> when the Linux distributions feel fine to provide GTK (and all other
> packages) compiled just one way (optimized for speed,
> presumably). Heck, no commercial software provider for Windows gives
> you the choice either.
this was only an idea, maybe a bad one. but I still think that
gtk runtime could be optimized for speed and space with msvc6.
someone with a licence for msvc6 could provide a binary distribution.
why not give people a choice? because commercial software providers
don't do that?

>  > 4. maybe some others compilers could be used, bcc ?
>
> That would be a good idea (only) if the ABI of bcc-generated code
> isn't binary compatible with gcc/MSVC -compiled. Is it?
I know that bcc dlls are not compatible with msvc, although they can be
transformed I think. but bcc compiled gtk could be used in bcc projects.