Re: [TCLCORE] Windows Release CI run uploads and eventual signed release process

[Andreas K. <and...@gm...>]

> On 2/9/26 8:02 PM, Phillip Brooks wrote:
 
> > The first question I need to figure out is what flavor of build
> > should we use for the signed release build.  The tcltk/tk CI
> > currently builds both using gcc and using MSVC.  I am thinking
> > that the default builds should be 64 bit builds (MSVC is currently
> > 32 bit, but I modified my version to build the 64 bit version). 
> > Is there a compelling argument for gcc or MSVC to be our standard
> > Windows release build?  I think the two considerations might be
> > regarding possible extensions.  Are downstream packages compelled
> > to use the same build toolchain that the released Tcl/Tk is built
> > with on Windows?

> My vote is MSVC, because it's the canonical compiler on Windows. Gcc
> is perfectly fine, but it's optimized for a Unix environment.

At ActiveState we used MSVC for the Windows builds, for the same
reasons, i.e. this is the native compiler of the platform.

We did use it from inside of a unix environment though, mingwin.

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