XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10   
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   On Wed, 10/29/2025 11:00 AM, Dan Purgert wrote:   
   > On 2025-10-29, J. P. Gilliver wrote:   
   >> On 2025/10/28 23:14:21, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   >>> On Tue, 28 Oct 2025 11:18:45 +0000, J. P. Gilliver wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> On 2025/10/28 1:20:41, Felix wrote:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Linux makes upgrades/updates so much easier. no need to stuff   
   >>>>> around with third party apps. another reason I love it.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>> That sounds very like the walled garden - what if I should _want_ to   
   >>>> "stuff around" with a third part "app"?   
   >>>   
   >>> You have the choice. You can download things and build from source.   
   >>   
   >> That seems to crop up more often than I'd expect. I don't think I've   
   >> _ever_ had to "build from source" for Windows things (granted, I'm not   
   >> usually offered the _opportunity_, except things on github).   
   >   
   > Kind of just a difference of paradigm really (and a dearth of compilers   
   > on windows).   
   >   
   > It really has fallen to the wayside though -- most developers will   
   > package for the major distros already, or provide a distro-agnostic   
   > solution, such as AppImage.   
   >   
      
   We gots the compilers :-)   
      
   I use MinGW32, because it works most of the time.   
   The MinGW64 (done by more than one group different   
   than the original), a few of those are full of brokenness.   
      
   Windows has Visual Studio Community Edition. That has   
   a compiler and linker. And it has had a few more toys   
   added to it, to make it easier to "pull" projects into it.   
      
   A third way I build things, is Ubuntu has some cross-compile   
   entries in the package tree, and you can make some.exe over   
   on Ubuntu, as a PE32+ program, bring it over to your Windows   
   machine and it runs. But that's not particularly set up   
   for large projects. You can have Ubuntu in bash shell on   
   Windows if you want, but when I do those, the Ubuntu would   
   be on a second computer.   
      
      Paul   
      
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