[ft-devel] Re: [bug #27045] "mingw32-make.exe setup" does not work well in CMD of WINE

[Werner LEMBERG]

> Recently I'm trying to execute FreeType2 building
> system for Win32 on WINE CMD.

I've seen your efforts, thanks.

> A) Force to check if the system is win32 platform, even when
>    PLATFORM is set to non-default values by preceding detect.mk
>    (e.g. unix).
> 
> B) Make the execution of builds/(PLATFORM)/detect.mk ordered.  At
>    present, builds/unix/detect.mk is executed before
>    builds/win32/detect.mk usually (maybe it's dependent with how
>    make.exe sorts the files).  If builds/win32/detect.mk is (always)
>    executed before builds/unix/detect.mk, WINE CMD hook in
>    builds/unix/detect.mk is not needed.
> 
> Which is better?

I prefer A), since almost everything in FreeType acts as independent
modules.

> In addition, dos_setup target of current builds/detect.mk passes the
> special characters to ECHO. Maybe they are for formatting.

Yes.

> Unfortunately, ECHO of WINE CMD cannot handle them correctly. There
> are serious requirement to use the special characters in dos_setup?

Not really, but it looks nice.  Perhaps there can be a special ECHO
setup for Wine.

> The speed of mingw32-make.exe in WINE CMD is very slow, so the
> development of FT2 with WINE CMD + MinGW is not pragmatic at present
> :-).

How comes?  A Wine problem?  Have there been reports in the Wine
bugzilla?


    Werner