Hi all,

Our Linux build env is easy to setup: just install a few -devel and 
build tools packages included in the distribution and you're done.

On the other hand, our windows build env is really hard to set up. You 
need to install the build tools (Microsoft visual studio, nsis, wix, 
...), but also download the library sources and build them as shared 
libraries and headers.

This has two consequences:

- first, this is a long, manual process so it is hard for a beginner to 
have a working windows build env for Mixxx. It is also hard for us to 
make a new windows build server for our package delivery and we have no 
windows build server for ages.

- Secondly, the way it is working now prevent us to use continuous 
integration platforms for windows env (like appveyor) because the 
cost/time to setup our build env before effectively building and testing 
the code is prohibitive.


I see another solution: why not seeing our windows build env as code, 
just like the Mixxx base code. we can entirely script the build env 
building and have it in git (we're not too far from that currently).

With this in mind, our windows build server can regularly build our 
build env, make an artifact (a zip file containing the build env) and 
put it somewhere for download.

With this packaged build env, our build server as well as any other 
windows CI service like appVeyor will be able to download and setup the 
build env in a few seconds, and then compile Mixxx.

This would make creating a new windows build env or a new windows 
jenkins slave an easy task, as easy as installing the few build tools 
packages and downloading the build env package.


What do you think of this ?

I can start working on this if you find it a nice way to deal with our 
buil env complexity.


S.B.


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