Re: Meson in MXE? MXE Docker image?

[Tony Theodore]

> On 25 Feb 2020, at 20:35, Sim Tov <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> there is an Gedit issue concerning cross-compilation for Windows:
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gedit/issues/238
> 
> Two questions:
> 
> 1. Is Meson part of MXE nowadays? If not, can it be added? What is the 
> procedure to file such a feature request?

There is a plugin for meson[1] but it isn't used internally be any mxe packages 
and I'm not sure how one would incorporate it into a build.

> [...]
> 2. Is there an up-to-date Docker image containing latest MXE? Such a 
> container would be great for automating cross-compilation to Windows from 
> GitLab/GitHub/etc.


There aren't any official images, but we have some AWS credits[2] to improve 
our CI and package building etc.

Cheers,

Tony

[1] https://github.com/mxe/mxe/tree/master/plugins/meson-wrapper
[2] 
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/mingw-cross-env-list/2020-02/msg00002.html