building on Windows

[drei97]

Thanx Thorsten,


if so,


what are the components of cygwin which are not available on Windows itself?


Or is this (only) for historical reason when Windows support of "native"
linux tools was not as it is today?



Am 19.01.24 um 13:46 schrieb Thorsten Behrens:
> Hi Joachim,
>
> drei97 wrote:
>> But why is VS needed then for the build process (except .NET
>> Framework)? Since g++ is used for compiling, why are some parts of
>> MVCS are needed?
>>
> That is a misunderstanding. LibreOffice is using the msvc compilers,
> cl.exe in particular.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -- Thorsten