On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 11:33 PM, David Macek <[email protected]> wrote: > On 8. 3. 2015 23:21, Chris Johns wrote: >> On 8/03/2015 8:13 am, David Macek wrote: >>> A new wikipage is up: >>> https://sourceforge.net/p/msys2/wiki/MSYS2%20introduction/ >>> >>> Comments are appreciated. >>> >> >> Great write up. >> >> One thing that came to mind is the DLLs required by a MinGW built >> executable. The DLLs referenced by a MSYS2 MinGW built executable is >> specific to MSYS2. There is no uniform DLL naming across any of the >> differing projects in this area of building Windows executables and >> cross-compiling for Windows from Unix provides a bunch more differences. >> I feel a note to new users that they need to package and ship MSYS2 DLLs >> with a native Windows executable is worth doing. > > Distributing software built using MSYS2 is probably worth its own wikipage. I > guess it would clearly state what are the conditions of distribution > (sources? issues with GPL?), then mention what you said, then note that it's > best to make a proper PKGBUILD for the program and show how to use pacman to > install the package with all dependencies into a separate directory. A guide > for making a simple QtIFw installer would be great to have there, too. > > I'd like to delegate writing a draft for this page to Ray or Alexey due to > lack of experience on my part. >
I wonder if we can ask Nacho if we can reuse his text from: https://blogs.gnome.org/nacho/2014/08/01/how-to-build-your-gtk-application-on-windows/ Since that describes the process well. > -- > David Macek > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored > by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all > things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to > news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the > conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ > _______________________________________________ > Msys2-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/msys2-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ Msys2-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/msys2-users
