On September 23, 2010 10:03:32 am kfj wrote:
> Having finally managed to build libpano and collateral software using
> minGW and msys, I am now considering an attempt to build the latest
> hugin version in the same environment. But I feel I should rather ask
> before I start if anyone has any helpful hints concerning this, or has
> already done so and can warn me of any problems I might encounter.

Congratulations on the libpano build.  Please consider updating the wiki.  I 
would recommend adding a completely new page at [0].  For all practical 
piurpose MinGW is a different platform than MSVC, and I would rename more 
aptly "Windows" into "Windows/MSVC" and add your insights as "Windows/MinGW".

Particularly users of Enblend/Enfuse will benefit from MinGW.  AFAIK OpenMP is 
available with MinGW free of charge like with most other platforms, while on 
MSVC it is only available with the 1000$+ professional edition.  
Enblend/Enfuse use OpenMP to harness the power of modern multi-core multi-
threaded CPUs.

AFAIK yours is the only recent success at building anything related to Hugin 
with MinGW.  More power to you.  You may find some information in old threads 
[1].

It's too early to say but I think that if you get the whole build working on 
MinGW we should strive to qualify it as a "major supported platform".

Yuv


[0] 
http://wiki.panotools.org/Development_of_Open_Source_tools#Supported_Platforms
[1] http://groups.google.com/group/hugin-ptx/search?group=hugin-
ptx&q=mingw&qt_g=Search+this+group


> 
> Let me add that I'm not familiar with cmake (I have it, though) and
> haven't built hugin before, but I'd like to start looking at the code
> and feel that I should have ways to build the executables so I can
> play with the code and see what happens. I've downloaded
> hugin-2010.2.0_rc1.tar.gz as my starting point.
> 
> with regards
> KFJ

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