Re: More on MinGW build

[David Grundberg]

J Luis skrev:
>> Also, with MSVC, you can't legally distribute the resulting binaries
>> due to licensing restrictions.  I don't know whether there are similar
>> problems with the Intel compilers.
> 
> Excuse me to ask, but are you sure of that? I never heard such thing.
> MS has even free EXPRESS versions of their compilers.
> AFAIK what is not legal to distribute are the debug runtime MS libraries.
> 

Those software packages Microsoft gives away may be free as in price,
but not free as in freedom; they don't give the user the four freedoms.
 See the archives for previous discussions about ms runtime libraries.

Also the mingw and cygwin kits are excellent even though the initial
step might be rough for those not familiar with both win32 and GNU.
Also, install a decent terminal emulator, the one windows provides is
worse than useless.

Grundberg