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I think he meant in the context of Visual Studio 2013. Imagine doing a build of the Linux kernel with Visual Studio 2013?!?
by yitchelle 13y ago
I think he meant in the context of Visual Studio 2013. Imagine doing a build of the Linux kernel with Visual Studio 2013?!?
- jedbrown 13y agoMany cross-platform libraries are written in C. Microsoft's terrible support for C causes those projects a significant amount of pain. If the upstream library developers don't have time/interest to restrict their dialect to avoid various C features and to test regularly with Microsoft compilers, they either (a) drop support for Windows, or (b) only support Windows via non-Microsoft compilers. Neither of these options are very appealing for users of those libraries on Windows.
- gngeal 13y agoWell, you might want to do that if you were building a colinux-style paravirtualized system on top of the Windows kernel.