Roger Pack wrote:

> Could I make a plea for 1.9 windows users to try to consolidate on
> mingw, versus other compilers?  Cross It would make it easier , and have
> less targets for binary distributables [and they're easier, thanks to
> Luis' cross compiler [1]]. 

I'm +1 on that, in theory. Having different 1.9 builds for Windows 
washing about makes it more difficult to provide pre-built gems.

MingW is familiar for those using gcc on other platforms; the main 
downside I've found is that the support tools (eg gdb) are a bit flaky 
at the moment. Eg gdb sometimes exits unexpectedly while debugging, and 
the key entry/prompt/shell gets muddled easily.

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