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StephanTLavavej / mingw-distro

MinGW distro build scripts.
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"Basic" MinGW distro? #105

Closed 636C6F776E closed 6 months ago

636C6F776E commented 6 months ago

Hello! I am looking for a high quality alternative to (abandoned?) TDM-GCC. Your MinGW distro is great however I have a disagreement: in my personal opinion a distro should only contain the following items:

IMPO everything extra is basically a pollutant or at the very least bloat. Extra tools and libraries can (and should?) be managed independently of the above.

I would like to know your reasoning for including things such as Boost, SDL2, LAME etc. I have noticed the same trend in the WinLibs distro and I don't understand it.

Additionally I'd like to know if you'd ever consider releasing a stripped-down alternative version (e.g. mingw-basic-19.0.exe).

636C6F776E commented 6 months ago

a stripped-down alternative version

My mistake! I didn't notice components.7z -- thank you for the distro!

StephanTLavavej commented 6 months ago

I would like to know your reasoning for including things such as Boost, SDL2, LAME etc. I have noticed the same trend in the WinLibs distro and I don't understand it.

It's stuff that I use personally - or did, when I had time to program C++ as a hobby.

Yep, I provide components.7z precisely to allow people to create subsets easily.