Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] Qt5 Shared / Travis-CI

[Mark Brand]

> The most recent problem I had in the past was that MXE created the 
> executable just fine, yet it was corrupt and would not run. I even had 
> two independent parties test the executable outside of a VM and they 
> confirmed it didn't work either. That was on January 26, 2014 so that 
> is probably the same day when I cloned it.

I've never encountered this problem personally. If you run into it 
again, please bring it up here or open an issue in github.

> A large majority of the other issues were the constant problem that 
> one package would fail to build for one reason or another or even fail 
> because the download link may have been down or a bug in the 
> particular submodule unrelated to MXE. There really needs to be some 
> sort of a backup procedure that MXE does that happens when this occurs 
> that ensures just because the main link is down, it should use a 
> mirror or other method(like pulling a known previously built binary or 
> source package right from an MXE github repo similar to what I 
> mentioned above concerning the Travis-CI issue Tim explained above).

MXE has a backup package cache now, so this problem should be solved.

> I cloned the latest master earlier tonight and will be trying it 
> statically later(Like Tim mentioned, it does exceed 45 minutes, so you 
> must really enjoy your coffee hehe). Here is the output which looks 
> normal so far:
>
>     address@hidden:/mydata/mxe$ git clone -b master
>     https://github.com/mxe/mxe.git
>
>     address@hidden:/mydata/mxe$ make -j4 qt5


It might speed things up a bit if you add JOBS=4  as well as -j4. 45 
minutes isn't that bad though, is it?


Mark