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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/20/2012 5:12 PM, John Beardmore
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Out of interest, why are Microsoft tools used to build Scribus ?
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Surely the standard Linux gcc is used on other platforms ?
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Cheers, J/.
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I'll confess my ignorance, but isn't life suppose to be simpler
using Microsoft compilers for Windows builds? (I don't think it is;
in fact, what they try to do to make things simpler just makes is
harder.) I have no experience in cross compiling for windows
outside of windows, but if you know it to be a common practice,
please speak up. have cross compiled in Gentoo from an AMD to ARM
and found it to be peppered with some peril. My cross compiler was
humming, and then suddenly some of the target programs started
failing with obscure messages. It was very complicated and I just
stop cross compiling to save myself hours of trying to figure out
what had gone wrong.<br>
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It's my fear that some library some where will require a windows
specific item and that all the time trying to set up a build
environment outside of windows will have be for naught.<br>
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