Support gcc on windows (Enhancement)

[fithisux]

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Some people do not use Microsoft C/C++ compiler on windows. Please make pony compatible with mingw or mingw-64 on windows.

[chalcolith]

This would be nice to have; I am extremely busy right now and don't have time. If you want to experiment with GCC, this would require several steps:

• Modify the ponyc-windows-libs project (https://github.com/kulibali/ponyc-windows-libs) to add GCC builds.
• In wscript, add a config setting for msvc vs. gcc.
• In wscript, add gcc configuration to the configure and build functions.

[fithisux]

Thanks for the reply. I have to check this out.

[aravind-kumar]

This seems interesting. Can I work on it? 🙂 incase it hasn't been done yet.

[SeanTAllen]

Yes!

[SeanTAllen]

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[aravind-kumar]

Awesome! 🙂, Am in 🙂 Could you kindly explain in a bit more detail?
I am new and kind of finding it hard to understand But interesting 🙂

[SeanTAllen]

@aravind-kumar exaplain what in more detail?

[aravind-kumar]

@SeanTAllen : The steps to take for this enhancement

• "Modify the ponyc-windows-libs project (https://github.com/kulibali/ponyc-windows-libs) to add GCC builds." This one 🙂

[SeanTAllen]

@aravind-kumar that would be a question for @kulibali

[chalcolith]

Hi @aravind-kumar, you'll need to do the following:

• Modify build.ps1 in ponyc-windows-libs to build versions of PCRE2, LibreSSL and LLVM with GCC (probably mingw as the original poster suggests) as well as MSVC, and submit a pull request to that project.
• I can tag a new release of that project and use make-local.ps1 to build and upload new library zip files.
• Modify wscript in the https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc project to be able to use GCC as well as MSVC, and submit a PR.

[chalcolith]

Oh, and also you will need to modify vcvars.c to provide the correct options for finding required C/C++ headers, and calling the Gnu linker when linking Pony programs.