Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] Geda/PCB build

[Enoch]

Enoch <address@hidden> writes:

Hi Tony, 

In response to your question. As I don't have geda-pcb commit rights and as
no geda-pcb developer got excited (Linux programmers', what da ya
expect :-) I don't think we can say "case closed".

There is a solution, can you add geda-gaf and geda-pcb to MXE make
targets. There you can patch their gd config as you like.  Hearing that
perhaps we can draw the attention of some of their developers.

This reminds me that doing PR for MXE is very important to the future of
the MXE project. All those disparate OSS developers should come to
understand that it is in their best interest to follow a single Windows
cross distribution method. Windows (usually) is not their strong side
and they really can share the experience of other projects.

Did any of you MXE leaders submit news to Slashdot and their like?

Thanks, Enoch.




> Tony Theodore <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> On 14/02/2013, at 8:19 PM, Tony Theodore <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Okay, the pcb source has some strange logic to look for -lbgd instead of 
>>> -lgd, and for some other reason doesn't detect gd functionality correctly. 
>>> To build pcb:
>>> 
>>> tar xf pcb-20110918.tar.gz
>>> cd pcb-20110918/
>>> sed -i 's,GD=bgd,GD=gd,g' configure
>>> ./configure \
>>>     --host=i686-pc-mingw32 \
>>>     --prefix='/Users/tonyt/dev/mxe/usr/i686-pc-mingw32' \
>>>     --disable-update-desktop-database \
>>>     --disable-update-mime-database \
>>>     --disable-doc \
>>>     GDLIB_CONFIG=/Users/tonyt/dev/mxe/usr/i686-pc-mingw32/bin/gdlib-config \
>>>     ac_cv_func_gdImageGif=yes \
>>>     ac_cv_func_gdImageJpeg=yes \
>>>     ac_cv_func_gdImagePng=yes
>>> make
>>
>> git checkout is much the same, just run `./autogen.sh` before `./configure`
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Tony
>
> Thank you Tony, it worked!
>
> The following is for the attention of the geda guys:
>
> Att. PCB Windows build
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Thanks to Tony Theodore from the MXE project PCB's git checkout now
> builds without a hitch a windows executable. <http://mxe.cc/> is an
> impressive cross platform build solution and I recommend that it would
> be considered as an alternative to minipack.
>
> Most of us here, if not Windows users ourselves, have coworkers/clients
> who would not accept anything but a Windows solution. I believe that
> using MXE we would be able to maintain a better version sync between
> Linux and Windows.
>
> By the way, I am building my MXE stuff using this script 
> (-: which I call wean :-)
> http://pastebin.com/j6KtVBTb
>
> Apologies for this cross posting but I hope that in this case it is
> justified.
>
> Sincerely, Enoch.