jlahoda commented on a change in pull request #1073: [NETBEANS-1145] Make Windows Launchers part of the build process. URL: https://github.com/apache/incubator-netbeans/pull/1073#discussion_r245498918
########## File path: README.md ########## @@ -62,6 +62,18 @@ $ ant -Dcluster.config=platform **Note:** You can also use `php`, `enterprise`, etc. See the [cluster.properties](https://github.com/apache/incubator-netbeans/blob/master/nbbuild/cluster.properties) file. +#### Building Windows Launchers + +As of [NETBEANS-1145](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-1145), the Windows Launchers can be built adding ```do.build.windows.launchers=true``` property to the build process. +``` +$ ant -Ddo.build.windows.launchers=true +``` + +##### Software Requirement to Build Windows Launchers on Ubuntu: +``` +sudo apt install gcc g++ cmake gdb qt4-qmake g+-mingw-w64-x86-64 g+-mingw mingw-w64 openjdk-8-jdk Review comment: I wonder if we want to say something along the lines of "MinGW is used to compile the Windows launchers. The following command line may install it on Ubuntu:" The list of packages may? be unnecessarily broad here? "apt install make mingw-w64" might suffice, although I didn't try. (OTOH, requiring more packages is surely better than requiring too few.) ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected] With regards, Apache Git Services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists
