Hello Romain,
On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 10:20 AM Romain Beauxis <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hi Bill,
>
>
> 2017-03-21 16:53 GMT-05:00 Bill Burton <[email protected]>:
> > I've been attempting to build liquidsoap from github.com for Windows
> using
> > the release at
> http://fdopen.github.io/opam-repository-mingw/installation/.
> > The install of opam appears to be successful on all accounts but I can't
> get
> > the pcre package to install successfully which is a dependency on
> > ocaml-duppy and/or liquidsoap itself.
> >
> > I realize this probably has nothing to do with liquidsoap itself but I'm
> > rather stuck at this point due to this issue. There's probably a simple
> > explanation that has escaped me as I'm new to opam, etc.
>
> Oh man. No, I don't think that you've missed a simple explanation but,
> rather, I suspect that installing opam packages with external dependencies
> on windows can be quite tricky.
>
> Fortunately, it seems that the PCRE library and pkg-config are the only
> external dependency required to build liquidsoap on windows.
>
> I would suggest to search for documentation on how to install pcre in
> mingw first. The library should install a pcre-config binary. That's the
> one reported missing in your build log.
>
Okay, thanks for confirming that.
The release I'm using claims to support pcre so I'll pursue getting it
built so I can stick with opam (at least for liquidsoap).
> Another option for you would be to cross-compile, i.e. create a windows
> binary from a linux distribution. This the way that I have previously built
> liquidsoap. I wrote some notes about it a long time ago but they might
> still be useful: http://liquidsoap.fm/windows.html
>
Yes, I've seen that page. I'd rather try to get this working via opam as
opposed to cross-compiling.
> Since I wrote them, the mingw OCaml cross-compiler package has been
> renamed to mingw-ocaml and I have created a github repo with, supposedly,
> all the external dependencies cross-compiled here:
> https://github.com/savonet/i686-w64-mingw32-buildroot
>
Oh, thanks for that!
-Bill
>
> Good luck,
> Romain
>
>
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