On 19/11/15 08:31, Thomas Martitz wrote: > Am 19.11.2015 um 00:38 schrieb Frank Lanitz: >> On 19.11.2015 00:26, Enrico Tröger wrote: >>> On 19/11/15 00:00, Lex Trotman wrote: >>>> On 19 November 2015 at 08:53, Enrico Tröger >>>> <enrico.troe...@uvena.de> wrote: >>>>> On 18/11/15 02:29, Lex Trotman wrote: >>>>>> On 18 November 2015 at 10:41, Lex Trotman <ele...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>>> Who is gonna make the PR (for milestone 1.27, after a whole 1.26 >>>>>>> release deprecated) ready to remove Waf, not forgetting the >>>>>>> documentation, README, INSTALL etc and the website (hint Enrico ;) >>>>> I'm planning to do this, all of this (thanks for creating my TODO >>>>> list ;D). >>>>> I will probably do this at the weekend, as time permits. The plan >>>>> is to >>>>> do this soon to have enough time for fixing/adapting missing autotools >>>>> bits until 1.27. >>>> Yeah, thats why I prompted early in the cycle. >>>> >>>> BTW the hint was only relating to the website, not the whole lot, but >>>> thanks for volunteering :) >>> Yup, got it. In both ways and the new website makes progress, slowly but >>> it's not that far away. >>> >>> BTW, today Frank started to remove Waf from Geany-Plugins >>> (https://github.com/frlan/geany-plugins/compare/build/remove_waf, >>> https://github.com/geany/geany-plugins/issues/310). >> Most of the removing is done. Updating/Reviewing some documentation left >> -- but currently thinking to move this to another sprint as there is >> more to do than just purging waf. But still missing at this point is an >> "idiot"-proof description on how to build with current autotools on >> Windows. >> >> > > There's a start at http://wiki.geany.org/howtos/win32/msys2 > > After setting up msys2 the process is identical to Linux. To specify > prefixes outside of the msys2 installation directory use > --prefix=/c/geany, for example. Git also works flawlessly within msys2. > > Please be aware that msys2 builds programs that DON'T need msys2 to run. > Only the msys2 shell and tools are linked against the msys2 runtime. > That runtime is not linked into programs compiled within that shell. > That means we can use it to produce release builds that don't need msys2 > installed on the user's system. This is in different (and better) to > cygwin (which msys2 is based on).
And in general, it's all pretty much fine already. I just built Geany and Geany-Plugins with MSYS2, almost without any problems. I also experience the very slow performance but I don't consider this as a show-stopper, it's just a bit annoying. Btw, similar topic is discussed in https://github.com/geany/geany-plugins/issues/310. Regards, Enrico -- Get my GPG key from http://www.uvena.de/pub.asc
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