{"issue":{"state":"open","created_at":"2011-11-19T23:44:27Z","updated_at":"2011-11-22T05:51:31Z","user":{"gravatar_id":"7816074b94003120cf228c56656b0c9e","id":284368,"url":"https://api.github.com/users/dch","login":"dch","avatar_url":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/7816074b94003120cf228c56656b0c9e?d=https://a248.e.akamai.net/assets.github.com%2Fimages%2Fgravatars%2Fgravatar-140.png"},"comments":2,"body":"Microsoft's native Visual C++ compiler is used to build Erlang from source.\r\nFor NIFs to be loaded successfully into the Erlang VM, and run stable, they\r\nmust be built against the same VC++ runtime, and using the same compiler as\r\nwas used for building the VM itself.","assignee":null,"id":2290383,"number":157,"pull_request":{"patch_url":"https://github.com/basho/rebar/pull/157.patch","html_url":"https://github.com/basho/rebar/pull/157","diff_url":"https://github.com/basho/rebar/pull/157.diff"},"labels":[],"title":"add native Windows compiler support","html_url":"https://github.com/basho/rebar/issues/157","closed_at":null,"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/basho/rebar/issues/157","milestone":null},"action":"created","comment":{"created_at":"2011-11-22T05:51:31Z","updated_at":"2011-11-22T05:51:31Z","user":{"gravatar_id":"e294b437ec942cbc1c0ecc3b64d69cff","id":21676,"url":"https://api.github.com/users/andrewtj","login":"andrewtj","avatar_url":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e294b437ec942cbc1c0ecc3b64d69cff?d=https://a248.e.akamai.net/assets.github.com%2Fimages%2Fgravatars%2Fgravatar-140.png"},"body":"You might have to bring this up on erlang-questions to get more input from Windows users. I don't know the platform that well but I'd guess is that a config option nominating the build environment will be required.","id":2830739,"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/basho/rebar/issues/comments/2830739"}}