Re: Script to cross build pspp for windows

[Friedrich Beckmann]

Hi John,

thanks jumping into the dark world of windoze... I am currently quite busy. 
Thats why I could not spend time on this topic - but I guess it is really worth 
to do this because many users use this.

Fritz

> Am 19.03.2021 um 20:49 schrieb John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>:
> 
> For those who are interested in cross building for windows, attached
> is a script which downloads all the dependencies, compiles and links
> a working pspp binaries.
> 
> It takes about 15 mins on my machine.  The only caveat is that the
> meson provided by Debian is not recent enough.  You must get the
> one from Debian backports.
> 
> It doesn't come with a fancy self contained installer like windows
> people often expect.  I tried using Harry's pspp.nsi file but it
> wouldn't work for me (I'm not sure why).  Also there are a few things
> (like icons) missing.
> 
> Perhaps someone who knows a bit more about Windows might be interested
> in finishing the job.
> 
> J'
> <build-mingw-pspp.txt>