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		jcoffland on Sept 12, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cap’n Proto Right, but you should be able to compile a library with either MinGW or clang from Linux that your users can use with MSVC.

kentonv on Sept 12, 2016 [–]

Not if it uses C++. MinGW uses the G++ ABI which is totally incompatible with the MSVC ABI.

(Also, a lot of the issues we face affect headers, which need to be compiled into the client projects.)

jcoffland on Sept 14, 2016 | [–]

Since the code is so small and in C++ why not make it a header only library?

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