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>Your compiler has no bearing upon the license of your program, and the inverse also applies.
I'm not so sure about that... The GNU GPL FAQ seems to think otherwise in certain circumstances. https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#WindowsRuntimeAndGPL
You may not distribute these libraries in compiled DLL form with the program. (It refers to the MSVC libraries)
So from what I can gather, that would include the MSVC redist installers too?...
So as far as I can understand, you'd be free to compile a GPL program with MSVC, and distribute the software, but not the MSVC redist itself. You would have to tell the users to go get that themselves. Which is a major pain in the butt so you'd be better off just using MinGW in the first place to avoid such issues.
PS: What the heck is even going on in that pic, how the heck is it mirrored and flipped?!
I'm not so sure about that... The GNU GPL FAQ seems to think otherwise in certain circumstances. https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#WindowsRuntimeAndGPL
You may not distribute these libraries in compiled DLL form with the program. (It refers to the MSVC libraries)
So from what I can gather, that would include the MSVC redist installers too?...
So as far as I can understand, you'd be free to compile a GPL program with MSVC, and distribute the software, but not the MSVC redist itself. You would have to tell the users to go get that themselves. Which is a major pain in the butt so you'd be better off just using MinGW in the first place to avoid such issues.
PS: What the heck is even going on in that pic, how the heck is it mirrored and flipped?!
