Re: LuaBinaries and the RTL DLL for 5.2

[Andrew Wilson <agrwagrw@...>]

Generally I'd rather move to an open source compiler solution,I'd also
like to get away from dependency on a specific MSVC runtime version.
Is it possible to have MSWindows images that aren't dependent on a
specific runtime version? How broken is MSVCRT.DLL? Do these
MSVCRT.dll issues cause real problems?

Andrew

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Antonio Scuri <scuri@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
>   As always the problem is not the compiler. MingW still uses the
> MSVCRT.DLL. This RTL has two great pros for re-distributing DLLs: it is
> already installed on the system and does not depends on a manifest. This
> would be heaven… But I think it has many cons.
>
>
>
>   It is an old DLL with known bugs and it is not maintained anymore. The
> main development environment for Windows is still Visual C++. The free
> Windows SDK already includes a command line version of VC. Visual C++
> Express edition is a free fully featured IDE. And for those who are used to
> develop in Visual C++ to build DLLs with several dependencies using gcc is
> not an easy task.
>
>
>
>   BTW the official stable version of MingW still uses GCC version 3. I just
> downloaded version 5.1.6 to check that. If I’m not mistaken GCC 4 must be
> manually installed.
>
>
>
>   Maybe in 2010 we see some improvements on that (VC or MingW). But for now
> we have vc8 and vc9. So back to the issue, what do you think of moving from
> vc8 to vc9?
>
>
>
> Best,
>
> scuri
>
>
>
> From: lua-bounces@bazar2.conectiva.com.br
> [mailto:lua-bounces@bazar2.conectiva.com.br] On Behalf Of RJP Computing
> Sent: sexta-feira, 15 de janeiro de 2010 02:27
> To: Lua list
> Subject: Re: LuaBinaries and the RTL DLL for 5.2
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:01 PM, Antonio Scuri <scuri@tecgraf.puc-rio.br>
> wrote:
>
>  For those who use the LuaBinaries executables,
>
>  I'm about to release the LuaBinaries for 5.2.0-work2 and have a question
> regarding the DLL dependency.
>
>  I think it is time to move from vc8 (VS 2005) to vc9 (VS 2008) and the 5.2
> release is a great opportunity since it will force all modules to recompile
> anyway.
>
>  What do you think?
>
>
>
> I vote to compile and release with MinGW GCC. Drop the tough VC RTL issues.
> MinGW has updated to version 4.4 and is just as fast if not faster than VC.
> Please.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Ryan