Re: windows build

[Bruno H. <br...@cl...>]

Hi Reini,

> Cygwin would be nice, esp. to produce releases, but I’m not sure if Appveyor provides such an
> image yet.

Apparently they do, in their Visual Studio 2015 pre-installed image, see
https://www.appveyor.com/docs/build-environment/#mingw-msys-cygwin

Can you confirm it? Thus, can we ditch the nmake-based build?

> First I wanted to get MSVC passing, then I wanted to switch over to mingw, which is supported,
> and smoke with win32 and win64.

I usually port things in the opposite direction: first cygwin, then mingw, then MSVC.
So that at each step, I have a limited set of problems to deal with, not all at once.

> most likely to debug libsigsegv on win64. This was the
> latest blocker when I left.

Yes, libsigsegv on 64-bit Windows still does not work.

Bruno