[Bf-committers] [Idea] MinGW Cycles cpu kernel in MSVC builds

[Jürgen Herrmann]

While writing an answer to another thread I had an insane idea:

Maybe if we had a possibility to compile the cycles CPU kernel lib with mingw and link it into a version of blender built with MSVC we would get a blender build with insane speed improvements on windows while getting a good OpenMP performance on the rest of blender.

What do you guys think? Linking to mingw libs in MSVC 2012 is possible and harmless as long as we don't use win api calls inside the lib.
This should work great for cycles' CPU kernel lib.
The only question is how can we do this without having to manually replace the lib file?

/Jürgen