[PD] [PD-announce] gem 0.93.1

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Sun, 28 Aug 2011, IOhannes zmölnig wrote:

> Gem currently does not compile with mingw (see recent postings on
> gem-dev@), but it would be a nice feature to have for 0.94 (help would
> be appreciated; hint, hint :-))

It's not that I would like to have the option of compiling Gem in MinGW, 
it's that I would like the default builds of Gem to be able to communicate 
with GridFlow. So it's either that Gem binaries for Windows all use MinGW, 
or that a workaround is created so that anything that communicates with 
Gem can do it without being compiled in MSVC.

Otherwise, it would mean that GEM users who want to try GF have to 
reinstall a different GEM than default just to have something that runs 
with MinGW.

Afaict, GridFlow will never run with MSVC. Well, it might not be using 
that many GCC extensions, but I haven't counted them. Maybe it's only 
variable-sized arrays on stack, and variable number of args in macros.

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