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It would be great because then the builds would be independent of Microsoft VS infrastructure which is a total mess on Windows. Both Clang and GCC work with Min
by bluecalm 8y ago
It would be great because then the builds would be independent of Microsoft VS infrastructure which is a total mess on Windows. Both Clang and GCC work with MinGW (I use MinGW64) headers so then you would have two modern open source compilers to cross-reference and open source toolchain you could fix or improve as needed.
- cpeterso 8y agoMozilla used to compile Firefox with mingw because Tor uses mingw, but here is the Firefox bug with about moving to clang-mingw: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1465790 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1465790
- dblohm7 8y agoI'm fine with being able to compile with mingw (and we already can on GCC), but we can't ship our release builds with it; it's too far behind the official Windows SDK in terms of supporting new platform features.
- bluecalm 8y agoYeah, I realize that supporting MinGW64 is a big task and probably not worth for one single player even as big as Mozilla. Still, I hope one day it gets picked up. Visual Studio dependency is painful and I think it will be quite a while till Clang catches GCC in performance department.