Re: GNUStep on Windows

[Vincent Richomme]

On Sun, 24 Jan 2010 12:43:36 +0100, Riccardo Mottola <address@hidden>
wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> Vincent R. wrote:
>> When will you switch to llvm on windows platform ?
>> I can see from website that for now you are releasing a solution based
on
>> msys/mingw-4.4
>> and could it be possible to use a msys/llvm alternative ?
>> Would it work ?
>>    
> We are not going to "switch" any time soon.  I don't think GNUstep is 
> going to "switch" anytime soon on other targets either. GCC is currently

> our preferred compiler. David Chisnall is doing some excellent and 
> interesting work in getting llvm and also the libobjc2 runtime to work 
> with GNUstep.
> 
> Our goal is to support llvm+lobobjc2 as a second alternative.
> 
> Supporting llvm on windows could be possible I gues, depending on how 
> good llvm works with the msys environment. But currently I think nobody 
> is working on that directly, David doesn't work on windows and the 
> developers currently active on Windows have their hands full fixing 
> other problems, like theming and backend issues.

Ok so it means I can make some testing in my spare time and try to do some
feedback