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Re: Packaging on Windows
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Jussi Lehtola |
Subject: |
Re: Packaging on Windows |
Date: |
Wed, 29 Jun 2011 00:54:20 +0300 |
On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 17:41:42 -0400
"John W. Eaton" <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 29-Jun-2011, Jussi Lehtola wrote:
>
> | I had a quick look at packaging Octave on Windows. As I mentioned
> | before, Fedora has a full fledged MinGW build system, that can be
> used | to compile Windows binaries and installation packages.
>
> Can you also test the generated binaries by running them with wine?
> The last time I tried to generate a binary built with MinGW on my
> system and run it with wine, it failed. Here is the info I posted
> about my attempts at this the last time I tried it:
>
>
> https://mailman.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/octave-maintainers/2011-January/022485.html
>
> Without a way to test or debug it, I think I would find building
> binaries this way a really frustrating experience.
Sure.
The 64-bit version of MinGW is not yet in stock Fedora, but the 32-bit
version works just fine:
$ i686-pc-mingw32-g++ -static -v foo.cpp -o foo.exe
$ wine foo.exe
foo-i-hithere
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Jussi Lehtola
Fedora Project Contributor
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