Just sharing my findings, if it is useful to anyone. I was looking for an easy way to sort my path setting up some version of MinGW to build fossil trunk (for 32 bits) on Windows. I needed it to get a 32 bits build suitable for tests on Windows XP. The build environment is Server 2016, which for this purpose is Windows 10 alike. I could not use my Visual Studio 2017, because that requires installing an optionally toolset pack (which I can't for obscure internal policies reasons). That optional toolset specifically targets Windows XP compatibility (the default up-to-date toolset of Visual Studio 2017 produces executables that cannot run on Windows XP).
There are MinGW and MinGW-w64 which are two distinct projects. Apparently the first one is older and limited to 32 bits (I may be wrong on this). The other one is much more up to date, targeting both 32 and 64 bits but I haven't found a way to complete my setup satisfactorily. So using http://www.mingw.org, I knew I would end up with an older setup but suited to the task. ## My steps to setup MinGW. Follow the Downloads link from the top bar, leading you to https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/ From the Installer folder, download and run mingw-get-setup.exe Following the steps of the installer (I only opted out from links on the desktop), you end up with a GUI to manage your packages. From the Basic Setup node I only selected 'mingw-developer-toolkit', 'mingw32-base' and 'msys-base'. Then hit Apply. A few minutes later, it is done. ## My steps to set myself ready to compile fossil. Start a windows command prompt. Run C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\msys.bat to open up another prompt with a sh prompt. Ended up in my home directory which happen to read '/home/Olivier' (pwd) and that actually is C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\home\Olivier. ## Building fossil Assuming some fossil.exe is already in your windows path (which is easy to fix downloading a pre-built binary), I did nothing more than what I expected: $ mkdir fossil $ cd fossil $ fossil clone http://www.fossil-scm.org/ fossil.fossil $ fossil open fossil.fossil $ make win/Makefile.mingw And voilà: $ fossil version -v This is fossil version 2.5 [21d5038fd0] 2018-01-01 18:56:19 UTC Compiled on Jan 2 2018 00:02:38 using mingw32-5000001L-gcc-6.3.0 (32-bit) -- Best Regards, Meilleures salutations, Met vriendelijke groeten, Olivier Mascia _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
