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Why are open source projects built with Visual Studio these days? Especially as binaries built with VS2015 (release and up to service pack 2) are known to phone home "by accident". There are the GNU, Mingw, Msys, LLVM options on Windows - completely open source. Offer binary builds with at least one of these compilers on Windows platform.

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I found the answer on moz hacks https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/04/hacking-contributing-to-se...

Thanks, that's answer.

@Mozilla: so please make the Mingw builds as download package as well. And don't forget to release everything as ZIP packages as well. (not just MSI)

like it or not, VC is a very good compiler and a windows standard, and since not exactly recently, available for free for personal use. you don't have to use visual studio in order to compile software with cl.

It is a windows standard but I wouldn't call it a good compiler. It has traditionally has lacked in the standards department and compiler & code gen bugs have not been fixed with any kind of urgency.

Servo is written primarily in Rust...

I'm not a Windows developer by any means, but my understanding was that the major different compilers on Windows aren't ABI compatible. Also it's entirely possible Servo links against an external library that is built with VS.

they don't allow the use of the latest api. ex: listening to dpi changes.

but what they could do is to link statically with the runtime.

Rust can currently statically link the VC CRT, looks like servo doesn't compile with that option at the moment is all

Got some proof of phoning home?

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