Re: Building on MinGW using MXE-built dependencies [WAS: Re: mxe-installer try 2]

[John W. Eaton]

On 06/09/2013 03:01 PM, John D wrote:
> Ok - I will see how latest works for me as well.
>
> I have a patch for freetdl I will apply if it is still relevant - If so, I
> will push that.
>
> So far the things not working for me right now for a native mingw build
> (that I know of):
> Qrupdate tar issues???
> Postgresql - wont compile - issues mainly with not finding zlib and and
> others - I will try againt later as I have a feeling it is something obvious
> I am missing.
> Qt - I haven't tried for a while though, so will retry
> Octave

I've pushed some more changes and I'm building Octave (configure 
succeeded and it is compiling now) but without Qt.

I also noticed that you made some recent changes to disable shared 
libraries for a few packages when doing a native mingw build.  If we can 
build shared libraries for the cross build, what is the trouble with the 
native build?

jwe