Dimitri,

> It seems that the win32 port of firebird 1.5 has switched to MinGW,
> too

This is not the reality of the situation.

The ability to compile the sources with an open-source compiler (i.e.
MinGW) under Win32 is now supported by the v1.5 build enviroment. It is
not a requirement -- builds can also be made with MS VC 6 and MS VC 7.

Further, once compiled the binaries can be installed without the MinGW
environment running on the target servers.


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