Writing FOSS for Win32: A good LUG meeting topic?
Coleman Kane
cokane at cokane.org
Thu Mar 20 20:15:20 EDT 2008
Ben Scott wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 9:49 AM, <VirginSnow at vfemail.net> wrote:
>
>> Does anyone here think that "Writing FOSS applications for Win32"
>> would be a good presentation topic for a LUG meeting?
>>
>
> I do, and would also be interested for myself. It even has
> potential to be a good "outreach event", attracting a larger
> /different audience than our usual suspects. Good idea.
>
> This could go beyond software development, too. (Either as part of
> the same presentation, or a different one.) Just "Using FOSS on
> Win32" could go a long way.
>
>
>> Is anyone here expert on this topic? (Note: I'm not!)
>>
>
> Me neither.
>
> -- Ben
>
I've got a good amount of experience build Win32 apps with MinGW32
(binutils 2.18, GCC 4.2.1), cross-compilation and all the quirky glory
that is win32 DLL linking.
--
Coleman Kane
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