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0 pointshenrikschroder15y ago0 comments

There's plenty of people that want to volunteer porting projects to Windows, there are other hurdles such as Microsoft refusing to ship a C99 compiler, and getting the Windows port accepted into the main repo for the project.

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mahmud15y ago

Huh? Everyone builds with mingw. We shipped pure win32 desktop and service apps that were compiled with mingw.

The difficulties in porting to Windows are slightly more technical than just the availability of a free C compiler with C99 support, and project management politics.

henrikschroderOP15y ago

The problem is that MingW is a completely alien environment for the vast majority of C developers on Windows, and Visual Studio is a completely alien environment for POSIX projects.

That way you can't use the majority of Windows C developers, many of whom would love to contribute to open source projects, and who has the knowledge of the technical difficulties of porting to Windows.

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