Hi, I am happy to announce the first release candidate leading to the next release of win-builds: 1.5.
Win-builds is a fully-free/open-source, fully-bootstrapped and multi-platform project which provides compilers, libraries and tools for Windows along with cross-compilers from Linux (or any system with a GNU userspace). This version greatly improves setup on both Windows and Linux. On Linux installation has been simplified down to cloning 4 git repositories and running make. On Windows, a graphical installer is provided and installation is completely usecase-agnostic: msys*, cygwin, IDEs, or bare cmd.exe. The meta-build-system has been expanded for it to be as simple as "make WINDOWS_64=<package_name>". The compatibility for Linux versions has been maintained back to Ubuntu 12.04 and Debian squeeze (oldstable) although with a few restrictions. On Windows, the compatibility goal is >= Vista (it should still work on XP but it can't be officially supported anymore). Documentation has been updated for 1.5 and thanks to the improved ease-of-use, is noticeably shorter (writing less doc was the actual motivation behind these changes :) ). There are several new packages and many updates plus a few GTK+-related ones before the actual release. Screenshot of the GUI: http://win-builds.org/screenshot.png Package list: http://win-builds.org/1.5-rc1/packages/windows_64/package_list.html Build logs: http://win-builds.org/1.5-rc1/logs/ Installation on MSYS* and Cygwin: http://win-builds.org/1.5-rc1/msys-cygwin.html Installation on Linux: http://win-builds.org/1.5-rc1/linux.html Bug tracker, mailing-lists and IRC: See http://win-builds.org/support.html Rough roadmap to the final release and known issues in RC1: - GTK+ doesn't fully respect --libdir and therefore has a slight issue with gdk-pixbuf on 64b - default linker path might be incomplete and specifying -L/installation/path/lib (or lib64) might be needed on Windows - make.exe is not renamed to "mingw32-make.exe" and might therefore take precedence over MSYS' - documentation for setup with IDEs needs to be done - documentation for packaging hasn't been updated for 1.5 - libarchive's ABI is not the one intended by the upstream developers for large-file handling - installation on Windows shouldn't even require explicit unzipping of the installer. Regards, Adrien Nader ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Mingw-w64-public mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public
