Discuss compilers

Does MSVC belong in the list? Does it?

To be fair, mingw is complete garbage if you try to build a windows program.

[Morwenn]

I have been running MinGW-w64 for years now almost without a problem (I'm looking at you std::random_device). The biggest problem I faced was the lack of precompiled libraries.

But you're mostly writing console apps, right? When I said "windows program" I really meant linking directx, wic, mfc, etc.

[Morwenn]

Oh, like actually windowed programs using Windows-specific libraries. Then I don't know, the only windowed programs that I happened to compile with MinGW-w64 used either SDL or Qt.

[nabijaczleweli]

I had no problems linking to native Windows windowed libraries using MinGW

[nabijaczleweli]

Fuck if I know, 'twas a long time ago I last made a GUI program

So we put mingw in the list? It's worthwhile?

IMO the list should contain: Visual Community, clang, g++.

[nabijaczleweli]

What's a "Visual Community"?

It's a community of people that you can see (i.e. not ghosts, ninjas, or harry potter)

[nabijaczleweli]

@kBoK what's the VIsual Community you were referring to your previous comment?

[Morwenn]

IMO, MinGW-w64 is worth adding to the compiler list because it still works pretty well. MSVC is also of interest because it still manages to implement some features (modules, coroutines...) before other compilers and plays a somewhat important part in the C++ ecosystem.

I agree. MSVC has its unique features that makes it interesting, and the debugger is very nice. Worthwhile.

[nabijaczleweli]

lol MSVC, the only role it plays in the ecosystem is it puts back global warming ever so slightly (oh, and additional person-hours for making workarounds for it).

[nabijaczleweli]

I also propose rustc.