Michael Droettboom wrote: > This may not be necessary if we can get a Windows box, but I thought I'd > mention it. > > I wrote a distutils extension a couple of years ago to build Windows > installers on a Linux box with Mingw32. This has been working perfectly > for nightly builds on my home machine since around September 2007 for a > project with much the same build requirements as matplotlib. It's > really easy to install Mingw32 on Debian derivatives (maybe other dists > as well.)
Mike, Thank you! I had no idea that mingw32 was available as an ubuntu package, for example, and never would have thought to look for it. Now I will have to try it out. Do you know if there is an scons builder that uses it? That might be the sticking point for my non-mpl C code, which is now all built with scons. I think that if your distutils extension works for building mpl for Win on a Linux box, then we should use it. Anything that reduces dependence o having an actual Windows machine around is a win. On second thought, there is one disadvantage: an automated build on a Win box could also run an automated test. I have some dim impression of having seen a caution regarding compatibility between mingw extensions and present or future official python.org Python builds. Does this ring any bells? Eric > > See here: > > http://gamera.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/gamera/trunk/gamera/mingw32_cross_compile.py?revision=1066&view=markup > > > > Mike > > John Hunter wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Eric Firing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>> None that I know of. It would certainly be nice if we had the release >>> package-building completely automated; or automated daily svn builds >>> of the >>> Win and OSX packages. Since I don't work with either Win or OSX, I don't >>> know how hard this would be to set up. >>> >> >> Nightly builds would be excellent -- Charlie, to what extent do you >> think this is feasible from a scripting perspective? Ie, ignoring the >> hardware side for a minute, and assuming we had access to a build farm >> with OS X and win32, how hard would it be to setup a build bot for >> nightly builds? >> >> JDH >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's >> challenge >> Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great >> prizes >> Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the >> world >> http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ >> _______________________________________________ >> Matplotlib-devel mailing list >> Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
