Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] [patch] fix for building Qt on Mac with "-arch windows"

[Tony Theodore]

On 27 May 2010 18:54, Volker Grabsch <address@hidden> wrote:
> Mark Brand <address@hidden> schrieb:
>> Also could consider switching to http URL and/or lzma, which is more
>> compact than .tar.gz.
>
> Indeed, but it would add another system requirement, or we'd have
> to build an own lzma version. I'd like to avoid that kind of stuff
> as long as possible. Also, note that the stronger compression isn't
> significant in libtool, at least when compared to packages like Qt,
> GCC or Boost.

We could try something like the attached, a very minimal build of the
lzma decoders that are installed in usr/bin with the i686-pc-mingw32
prefix so as not to interfere with the normal environment.

I haven't tested it fully, just playing with ideas.

Tony

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