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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