Avoid requiring Visual Studio for Windows development
Hi, Sorry if the point below was already brought to attention but searching Visual Studio here matches too many Github's issues. ## Use case You surely know this as well, but Visual Studio isn't free. It is when using Community for learning, open-source and one man company. On the others cases, a license is needed which, of course, cost money. Since Windows is the major desktop platform and will probably remains as such for at least a decade it would be great if Flutter could be used to build Windows application in a commercial environment without needing a Visual Studio license. Otherwise, it will probably limits the growth of Flutter for commercial projects on the desktop which is rather unfortunate. ## Proposal Regarding solutions, I don't have any to propose since I don't know Flutter internals. But a few imaginable ones (I don't know if they are barely possible): * Provide a ready to use binary. * Use a free toolchain like MinGW
Posted by codec-abc on Mar 8, 2021, 8:58 PM
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Living in a 200+ year old house, I've seen a lot of this first-hand through both planned and unplanned renovations and repairs.
Is anything with the pebble time able to capture heart rate for historical data analysis?
Datastar has evolved into a suite of tools [1].
> real issue is that MSG is basically a public utility.
Everything good is a slippery slope: every step in the right direction is bad if you overshoot.
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Avoid requiring Visual Studio for Windows development
Hi, Sorry if the point below was already brought to attention but searching Visual Studio here matches too many Github's issues. ## Use case You surely know this as well, but Visual Studio isn't free. It is when using Community for learning, open-source and one man company. On the others cases, a license is needed which, of course, cost money. Since Windows is the major desktop platform and will probably remains as such for at least a decade it would be great if Flutter could be used to build Windows application in a commercial environment without needing a Visual Studio license. Otherwise, it will probably limits the growth of Flutter for commercial projects on the desktop which is rather unfortunate. ## Proposal Regarding solutions, I don't have any to propose since I don't know Flutter internals. But a few imaginable ones (I don't know if they are barely possible): * Provide a ready to use binary. * Use a free toolchain like MinGW
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