[IPOL discuss] compiling for windows

[Juan Cardelino]

>
> Of course, I'm not saying that we should allow code that only works in
> GNU/Linux systems. Code should be standard and independent from the
> architecture it runs on.
>
> The way the code has to be compiled or how the libraries have to be linked
> in other operating systems isn't, in my opinion, a major issue.
>
> Anyways, if finally a way to compile code for multiple platforms is
> proposed (cmake, for example), I'll welcome it.

I'm more interested in testing the code in different platforms than in
the way to compile them. Theese ways could change over the years but
we still need to test over different platforms. However, it doesn't
hurt to provide suggestions to authors according to their OSs.