[ovs-dev] [PATCH RFC]: windows: cross-compile using mingw-w64 gcc.

[William Tu]

On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 3:50 PM Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 11:13:35AM -0800, William Tu wrote:
> > Currently we use MSVC to compile OVS on Windows. The patch tries
> > to cross-compile OVS for windows using gcc from mingw-w64.
> > The patch still shows lots of warnings I haven't fixed, but now
> > it can generate all the .exe and I tested on windows 10 (no kernel
> > module).
>
> I'm enthusiastic about supporting fewer families of compilers.  MSVC is
> very different from Clang and GCC.

Yes, it also makes the build process simpler.

One problem is that we have to compile the Windows kernel module, and
it has to use MSVC.

Regards
William