Re: Packaging on Windows

[Jussi Lehtola]

On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 17:41:42 -0400
"John W. Eaton" <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 29-Jun-2011, Jussi Lehtola wrote:
> 
> | I had a quick look at packaging Octave on Windows. As I mentioned
> | before, Fedora has a full fledged MinGW build system, that can be
> used | to compile Windows binaries and installation packages.
> 
> Can you also test the generated binaries by running them with wine?
> The last time I tried to generate a binary built with MinGW on my
> system and run it with wine, it failed.  Here is the info I posted
> about my attempts at this the last time I tried it:
> 
>   
> https://mailman.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/octave-maintainers/2011-January/022485.html
> 
> Without a way to test or debug it, I think I would find building
> binaries this way a really frustrating experience.

Sure. 

The 64-bit version of MinGW is not yet in stock Fedora, but the 32-bit
version works just fine:
 $ i686-pc-mingw32-g++ -static -v foo.cpp -o foo.exe
 $ wine foo.exe
 foo-i-hithere
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Jussi Lehtola
Fedora Project Contributor
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