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Re:mrustc: In-progress alternative Rust compiler (to C) by monocasa on Sunday February 28, 2021 @05:32PM (#26297734)
You can't build GCC on MSVC or vis versa.

And people do see the pain here as a problem, that's why the project in this very thread exists. I think most in the Rust community see mrustc and the pressure that an independent implementation brings process wise as a very good thing for the language.

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Re:mrustc: In-progress alternative Rust compiler (to C) by my123 on Sunday February 28, 2021 @06:13PM (#26298007)
At least some years ago, you could build GCC on MSVC just fine. (Did it for GCC 3.3 and 4.2 on Interix way back then)

It should probably be still functional, or easily fixed if not.

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