Re: [Freepooma-devel] free pooma and MVC

[ron hylton]

> In principle most of FreePOOMA is not dependent on a UNIX environment. But 
> note that FreePOOMA uses standard makefiles and shell/perl scripts in the 
> build process.  You either are able to do the same with MVC(?) or you need 
> to create a MVC project and whatever MVC needs.  One easy way to use 
> FreePOOMA with Windows should be by using MinGW or Cygwin (the former is a 
> lot easier to use).

I migrated one pooma-based application from MSVC to Cygwin and performance 
went down by a factor of 6.  As best I could tell this was due to Cygwin-gcc 
using sjlj exceptions and I believe MinGW does the same.  While it's 
possible I overlooked something (I'm not a gcc expert) I think Windows users 
 realistically have to use MSVC.  (Or try something exotic, like Windows 
Services for Unix or VMWare.)   Having the old MSVC project files would be 
very helpful for new pooma users on Windows.

Ron