ReactOS Upgrades Its Build Environment - Shifting To A Much Newer GCC Compiler

[phoronix]

Phoronix: ReactOS Upgrades Its Build Environment - Shifting To A Much Newer GCC Compiler

The "open-source Windows" ReactOS project has upgraded its build environment leading to much newer versions of key compiler toolchain components...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ReactOS-Build-Environment-GCC8

[profoundWHALE]

This should yield some nice performance gains.


I'm sure Michael already has a few benchmarks planned

[Dr.N0]

This should yield some nice performance gains.


I'm sure Michael already has a few benchmarks planned

I like that idea! Maybe with Windows XP and 10 added for a historical comparison.

[wikinevick]

Bah .. if they want to be compatible with Microsoft they should be using the clang-cl.

[programmerjake]

Bah .. if they want to be compatible with Microsoft they should be using the clang-cl.

ReactOS also supports building with Visual Studio, which is about as compatible-with-Microsoft as you can get.

[CochainComplex]

I find this project really fascinating. Albeit not using it. Has someone encountered a situation where wine was not working but ReactOS?

[Vistaus]

I like that idea! Maybe with Windows XP and 10 added for a historical comparison.

I'm in favor of this!

[Charlie68]

Is there anyone in some remote corner of the world who uses this distribution?

[computerquip]

Is there anyone in some remote corner of the world who uses this distribution?

It's not a distribution of Linux if that's what you're implying.
And no, not really.

[mzeb]

I find this project really fascinating. Albeit not using it. Has someone encountered a situation where wine was not working but ReactOS?

I remember reading a story where someone rolled out ReactOS to replace Windows XP in a kiosk system. I don't understand why you'd want to do that however, maybe there is unique hardware which requires special drivers which somehow work on ReactOS.