Building LibreOffice on Windows

[Josh Heidenreich]

Hi Jesus, Tor, *,

> It can be done, yes. But it requires several months of work from
> someone who knows what is doing and the result would probably be a
> nightmare to maintain.

Did you go with cmake, a cmake-style solution (something which
converted makefiles to VS projects) or manually maintained them?

> Of course, it might also be that some people would see it as a good
> thing if the only compiler supported would be gcc. Sure, that would
> reduce the unpleasant tediousness of writing portable code.

I'm in the latter group - I think it's better to support multiple
compilers, as it forces portable code - thus I agree with the current
msvc efforts, as well as the recent llvm efforts.

Cheers,
Josh