RE: Using msys2 for mxe-octave

[JohnD]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John W. Eaton [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Monday, August 13, 2018 5:22 PM
> To: JohnD; address@hidden
> Subject: Re: Using msys2 for mxe-octave
> 
> On 08/13/2018 04:59 PM, JohnD wrote:
> 
> > Currently, it does not attempt to build from source
> 
> OK.
> 
> > I am not sure if it can without some Cygwin stuff, but would be something to
> look at.
> 
> Yeah, I couldn't see an easy way to make that happen for msys either,
> which is why it was never done.
> 
> > It also currently doesn’t grab the sources, which is really just a matter of
> adding additional source rules like was done for msys.
> > Does it have to package the sources ?
> > They are available from
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/msys2/files/REPOS/MSYS2/Sources/
> 
> We don't have to include them in the binaries that we distribute, but I
> need an easy way to download them so I can distribute them alongside the
> binaries.
> 
> jwe
> 

I added the src-msys2- makefiles and a new rule msys2-sources and pushed up to 
the repo