Re: [Liberty-eiffel] Liberty-eiffel Digest, Vol 26, Issue 3 - here: reasoning for using Pelles-C on Windows

[Bernd Schoeller]

On 07/03/16 11:53, Hans Zwakenberg | Ocean Consulting GmbH wrote:
> Hi Rahpa, Bernd et al,
> Pelles-C is free, free as in 'free speech' AND as in 'free beer'... ;)

No, it is free as 'free beer', but not as in 'free speech' - if it would 
be, you would have the source, and you would be allowed to change the 
source, and you would be allowed to distribute your changes.

Also, you are not allowed to charge money for it. So, it will never be 
possible to distribute it on Magazine DVDs or similar. That is quite a 
heavy restriction if you think about it. All real open source code can 
be distributed for a fee.

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html

> As to compiler integration:  other compilers are available:  CLANG/LLVM,
> Code::Blocks and the ones previously mentioned.  Also, in the past we
> discussed integrating Tiny-C as well, more specifically to get faster
> edit-compile-test turnarounds.  The idea was to use Tiny-C for
> development and any of the others (to be implemented) for deployment...
> Using MinGW/MSYS would keep it closer to the Linux counterpart and hence
> reduce integration effort, but I don't know enough about it
> (license-wise, deployment-wise) to be able to choose/decide between them...

Having looked a second time, I really would recommend to start by using 
MinGW. While there has not been an official release for 3 years, it 
seems to be reasonably well maintained. And, as it is the compiler that 
Liberty Eiffel normally uses, you will run into much less problems.

That is only my 5cc - your choice.

Bernd