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Support compilation with MinGW #80

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nmlgc opened this issue Mar 4, 2025 · 0 comments
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Support compilation with MinGW #80

nmlgc opened this issue Mar 4, 2025 · 0 comments
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Portability Porting the game away from 32-bit Windows Vintage Only necessary to keep the game working on the old Windows 9x systems that it originally targeted.

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nmlgc commented Mar 4, 2025 •
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Might give us a Windows 98 backport that is more stable in the long run than continuously chasing and polyfilling the current Windows SDK bundled with the current Visual Studio. It does come with its own slight migration troubles though:

  • How do you install MinGW? Via MSYS2 on Windows, or natively on Linux as a cross-compiler? Should we support both cases? It's much more of a support burden than telling people to go and grab the one and only Visual Studio.
  • There are ways to combine MinGW with Clang, but it traditionally implies and is packaged with GCC and thus depends on [Linux] Switch to GCC #79.
@nmlgc nmlgc added Portability Porting the game away from 32-bit Windows Vintage Only necessary to keep the game working on the old Windows 9x systems that it originally targeted. labels Mar 4, 2025
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