On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 01:30:43PM -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > Would there be any interest in having Sane or LibUSB in the mingw > packages? I have specs and patches for both, however the are some caveats:
Yes to both. Hans Niederman (ndim on #fedora-mingw) already took a look at libusb-win32. [...] > libusb-win32 compiles and runs without much modification, however this > library has a tendency to BSOD Vista machines. Works fine with Windows > XP. This is also only the 0.1.12 library. The 1.0 library is the current > release, but since Fedora isn't shipping it and Sane requires 0.1.12 I > am using it. Any know if Fedora switching to 1.0? Also, the resulting > .exe files generates an auto-requires of "setupapi.dll" and > "cfgmgr32.dll" so this is an issue that needs addressing. BSOD from userspace?? Probably best to file a bug against the native Fedora package if you want it to be updated. > As for maintainer-ship, I don't think I would be a good candidate to > maintain the packages so I'd be looking for someone to take the > specs/patches. Well post any specfiles and patches here. If you do want to make a package then take a look at: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW/New_package Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones New in Fedora 11: Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 70 libraries supprt'd http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW http://www.annexia.org/fedora_mingw _______________________________________________ fedora-mingw mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fedora-mingw
