Supporting alternative toolchains on Windows

[Magnus Ihse Bursie]

On 2022-03-11 12:55, Julian Waters wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> How feasible would it be/much effort would it require to support compiling
> with alternate toolchains on Windows besides Visual C++ (like the Windows
> ports of clang and gcc) if we restrict the allowed toolchains to only those
> that link against the ucrt? (Toolchains linking against the dated msvcrt
> would present too many issues to work with)

That'd be a huge undertaking. And any such patch would only be accepted 
into the code base if the organization behinded appeared trustworthy in 
their long-term commitment to keeping it working.

/Magnus