so, for me, instead of creating another "cross compilation tool" for windows, better help adrien with win-builds
On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 7:50 AM, Adrien Nader <adr...@notk.org> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 24, 2016, Stefan Schmidt wrote: >> Hello. >> >> On 21/10/16 16:44, Andrii Kroitor wrote: >> > Yes, this allows to compile working binaries for Windows from Linux system. >> > At least after this patch will be merged: >> > https://phab.enlightenment.org/D4357 >> > >> > I have not tried to build python efl yet, but I can check it next week. >> > >> > It is possible to prepare precompiled packages, but I'm not familiar >> > with package maintenance and distribution. >> > So I have a few question about this: >> > What should be included into package? >> > - binaries (for sure) >> > - includes and other installed files? >> > - some meta info about package? >> > - all dependencies or only their list? >> >> >> I honestly have no clue at all how windows packaging is done. What I >> would expect as a user or developer is thought that all binaries, >> dll/libs and header files are installed so I can start developing with it. > > You're a developer. Not an end-user. It's not completely trivial to have > the same "packaging" for both classes of people. ;-) > >> > Where can they be hosted? Win-builds are inactive for a long time, so I >> > doubt that we can reach their maintainer. >> >> Vincent said he is in contact with him. Maybe reach out to him if the >> are plans for a new release? > > I'm actually subscribed to this mailing-list, I'm on #e.fr and > sometimes on #edevelop. I got quite a bit behind in my emails a few > months ago and it took me some time to catch up with them. > >> > Should these packages be updated and uploaded manually? >> >> If the path with win builds does not work out we could host the windows >> binaries next to our source tarballs. Only for releases thought. > > Writing and improving the package manager's GUI took time off the > packaging itself and has delayed the current release a lot. > > But that actually doesn't matter much. It's supposed to be possible to > base on win-builds and build other versions or other packages and I > don't see why that couldn't apply to the EFLs. > > However I'm not sure I understand some of things done in that git > repository. I've only taken a cursory look at it and can't comment much > but I've been more than surprised to see a pthread.h file copied there > and that it came from pthreads-win32 which, I think(*), is > ABI-incompatible while winpthreasd doesn't have that issue (everyone and > their mothers assume pthread_t is an int like on linux). > > (*) maybe I've fixed the only occurrence of it a couple years ago, or > maybe not, I don't know anymore, but somehow I doubt it > > That said, the priorities in win-builds now are to provide a better > integration with fetching sources from git, iron out the bugs and > current limitations, and release. > >> > It would be perfect if someone has working build server able to build >> > EFL on Linux so we could add Windows build to it. >> >> Before anyone screams Jenkins here. I will only consider new things it >> handles when its current problems are sorted and we have a longer period >> of stable usage. >> >> We had cross builds for efl with mingw for some time but the cross build >> slave started crashing and after this dragged out for over a year I >> disabled the mingw builds. > > Can you detail the setup a bit more? I don't know which cross-toolchain > and dependencies it used. Somehow I seem to remember they came from > gentoo but I'm not sure. > > -- > Adrien Nader > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > The Command Line: Reinvented for Modern Developers > Did the resurgence of CLI tooling catch you by surprise? > Reconnect with the command line and become more productive. > Learn the new .NET and ASP.NET CLI. Get your free copy! > http://sdm.link/telerik > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-devel mailing list > enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Command Line: Reinvented for Modern Developers Did the resurgence of CLI tooling catch you by surprise? Reconnect with the command line and become more productive. Learn the new .NET and ASP.NET CLI. Get your free copy! http://sdm.link/telerik _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
