[Coco] LWTools & Nitros9 Build

[Aaron Wolfe]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 4:25 PM, Tormod Volden <lists.tormod at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 4:43 AM, Bill Nobel wrote:
>> Well Tormond, I am ending up abandoning Windows for building Nitros9.  I ended up moving the folders to my Raspberry Pi and have a much easier time building. (still need to figure out where to put lwtools after compile) I am still figuring this out, but getting there.
>
> Yes, building it on Windows is a pain compared to on Linux or Mac.
> Linux is made for making, Windows is made for buying applications.
>
> I would recommend Windows users to install Linux in a virtual machine
> if they know how to use one. Building NitrOS-9 will probably go 20-30
> times faster too, since MinGW->posix->NT is extremely slow on certain
> things.
>

I setup a windows build environment for NitrOS9 using mingw/msys
today, things have changed a bit since the instructions on the wiki
were written.  I'll try to update them.  It still works fine (though a
bit slowly :) once setup.