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pkmays | 13 years ago

Not mentioned among the major features: Windows builds have finally moved to Visual Studio 2010.

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csense|13 years ago

It seems strange to me that they use Visual Studio rather than mingw/msys. Do any HN readers know why that is?

eropple|13 years ago

I don't know why they don't, but I'd give serious thought to not supporting Windows at all if I had to use mingw/msys. And this is coming from somebody whose first order of business on a Windows machine is to install cygwin. The environment is just Not Friendly.

Visual Studio is the vendor-suggested way of building C++ and it's free besides; there's not really a good reason not to use it.

the_mitsuhiko|13 years ago

> It seems strange to me that they use Visual Studio rather than mingw/msys. Do any HN readers know why that is?

More widespread, easier to handle, more accepted among windows developers.

briancurtin|13 years ago

Because none of the core contributors use it and no one has contributed patches that make it work there.

(Windows contributor who did the VS2010 work)

facorreia|13 years ago

Just after Visual Studio 2012 was released?

dnu|13 years ago

Yes. Also keep in mind that Visual Studio 2010 is the last one which will work on Windows XP and Windows Vista.

briancurtin|13 years ago

We closed 3.3 for features months ago (June, maybe?) and it wasn't released. I would have liked to move to 2012 myself but the timing wasn't right.

(I did the 2010 changes)