Tim Allen on 20 Dec 2015 11:53:38 -0800


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Re: [PLUG] MinGW-w64: A developer-centric talk I could give


The combination of MinGW (git-bash in particular) and Vagrant has been a real game-changer for many developers. A fair amount of developers have workplaces where the desktop OS is Windows, yet need to develop for Linux. I'd love to learn more. +1!

On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 2:48 PM, JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org> wrote:
+1 for PLUG N or W.

On 12/19/2015 04:01 PM, Mike DePaulo wrote:
> At the last PLUG central, we discussed the need to give more
> developer-centric talks rather than sysadmin-centric talks.
>
> I could prepare and give a talk on MinGW-w64.
> "GCC for Windows 64 & 32 bits"
> http://mingw-w64.org/
>
> Like MinGW before it, MinGW is a port of GCC and its toolchain to
> Windows. In contrast to Cygwin, it lets you build your apps such that
> they target the usual Windows APIs and behave like any ony other
> Windows app. When combined with one of the available IDEs, it is an
> open source alternative to Microsoft Visual Studio.
> http://mingw-w64.org/
>
> The build environment can be Windows, Linux, Cygwin, etc, even
> specialized Linux build environments like the OpenSUSE Build Service.
> Many of the build environments include package management so that you
> can get your needed libraries and related build utilities (like NSIS
> for building installers ("setup.exe" files.))
> http://mingw-w64.org/doku.php/download

Later,
JP
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