Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] checkout sources instead of download or host a tar.gz file.

[Rashad M]

Hello Nagaev,

I have these two repositories using svn

1. http://svn.openscenegraph.org/osg/OpenThreads/branches/OpenThreads-3.2/

2. http://svn.osgeo.org/ossim/branches/v1.8.18/ossim/

I dont know get archives from it

On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 2:04 PM, Nagaev Boris <address@hidden> wrote:

> 1. For some libraries I am not able to get a source code as tar or zip. The
> only way is to download form repository and make them manually. Here MXE
> download archives and what i did was put it on localhost and fake a
> download. (not a clear way). I could also build them without using mxe make
> system. But I want them inside MXE and create .mk files.
>
> 2. How to deal with libraries that doesn't provide a archive or I want to
> switch to a development version. For example. I need OSSIM,ITK latest trunk
> version which can be checkout. And i can also make a tar or zip. But how
> will I set mxe to use this zip file instead of downloading?

Most repositories provide a way to download .zip or .tar.gz for any
desired commit.

Example:
MXE source, commit a8d49c6a34efef40bb9c27db896efb7f2de382a8
https://github.com/mxe/mxe/archive/a8d49c6a34efef40bb9c27db896efb7f2de382a8.zip


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Best regards,
Boris Nagaev

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Regards,
   Rashad