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Cap'n Proto supports MinGW as a target platform. (It has also supported Cygwin since very early on.) However, Cap'n Proto is a library, so it needs to support w

by kentonv 10y ago

Cap'n Proto supports MinGW as a target platform. (It has also supported Cygwin since very early on.) However, Cap'n Proto is a library, so it needs to support whatever compiler the users of that library are using, and for the vast majority of Windows developers that's MSVC.

jcoffland 10y ago
Right, but you should be able to compile a library with either MinGW or clang from Linux that your users can use with MSVC.
- kentonv 10y ago
  Not if it uses C++. MinGW uses the G++ ABI which is totally incompatible with the MSVC ABI. (Also, a lot of the issues we face affect headers, which need to be compiled into the client projects.)
  - jcoffland 10y ago
    Since the code is so small and in C++ why not make it a header only library?