Re: windows installers

2021-05-26 Thread Ben Pfaff
I see in the news that later this year Microsoft will make their "WSL" for installing GNU/Linux applications on Windows work with GUI applications. Maybe, if we wait, we can just use that without building anything special. On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 1:31 PM Michel Boaventura wrote: > > On 21/05/16 0

Re: windows installers

2021-05-22 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Sun, May 16, 2021 at 12:44 PM John Darrington wrote: > > On Sun, May 16, 2021 at 11:00:44AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote: > > Yes, I agree. Classic SPSS isn't general purpose enough to write > statistical procedures > that are as easy to use as the ones built into it. The SPSS language

Re: windows installers

2021-05-17 Thread John Darrington
On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 05:31:15PM -0300, Michel Boaventura wrote: I've been working with students from Social Sciences, Pedagogy and Statistics for about 15 years and it seems to me that students with a more technical background usually use R or even Python. For me, PSPP and SPSS mean

Re: windows installers

2021-05-17 Thread Michel Boaventura
On 21/05/16 09:44PM, John Darrington wrote: > On Sun, May 16, 2021 at 11:00:44AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote: > > Yes, I agree. Classic SPSS isn't general purpose enough to write > statistical procedures > that are as easy to use as the ones built into it. The SPSS language > manages to

Re: windows installers

2021-05-16 Thread John Darrington
On Sun, May 16, 2021 at 11:00:44AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote: Yes, I agree. Classic SPSS isn't general purpose enough to write statistical procedures that are as easy to use as the ones built into it. The SPSS language manages to be a misery of inconsistencies that make it near i

Re: windows installers

2021-05-16 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Sun, May 16, 2021 at 9:31 AM John Darrington wrote: > > On Sun, May 16, 2021 at 01:23:13PM -0300, Michel Boaventura wrote: > > I think most of Windows' users aren't technical at all. To be honest, I > think I've never met a Windows > developer in my life. Usually when users have a go

Re: windows installers

2021-05-16 Thread John Darrington
On Sun, May 16, 2021 at 01:23:13PM -0300, Michel Boaventura wrote: I think most of Windows' users aren't technical at all. To be honest, I think I've never met a Windows developer in my life. Usually when users have a good technical knowledge they migrate to Linux. I've been thinking

Re: windows installers

2021-05-16 Thread Michel Boaventura
I think most of Windows' users aren't technical at all. To be honest, I think I've never met a Windows developer in my life. Usually when users have a good technical knowledge they migrate to Linux. Using my Dockerfile or John's script we currently can create a working PSPP copy for Windows (if

Re: windows installers

2021-05-16 Thread John Darrington
It sounds like you have cross-built and installed all the dependencies okay. Just a few problems with the Windows/installers target which I wrote. On Sat, May 15, 2021 at 10:41:43PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote: make -j128 Windows/installers DESTDIR=$PWD/inst is just an exercise in frustration

Re: windows installers

2021-05-15 Thread Ben Pfaff
It turns out to be a lot easier on Fedora, which I switched to a while back because of hardware compatibility problems with Debian. On Fedora, you just do "dnf install mingw64-..." because they've already packaged a ton of cross-compiled versions of software. I only had to specially build spread-s

Re: windows installers

2021-05-10 Thread Ben Pfaff
That makes sense. I'll try it out when I can. On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 12:56 PM John Darrington wrote: > > On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 11:13:49AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote: > John, may I have the latest copy of your build script? I'll see how > hard it is for me to get it working. > > It's chec

Re: windows installers

2021-05-10 Thread John Darrington
On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 11:13:49AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote: John, may I have the latest copy of your build script? I'll see how hard it is for me to get it working. It's checked into git under the name Windows/build-dependencies Under debian, you'll need to install meson from backports.

Re: windows installers

2021-05-10 Thread Ben Pfaff
John, may I have the latest copy of your build script? I'll see how hard it is for me to get it working. On Sun, May 9, 2021 at 9:51 PM John Darrington wrote: > > Ben, would it be possible for you to arrange for your build bot to configure > a mingw > cross build and run the make target Windows/

Re: windows installers

2021-05-09 Thread John Darrington
Ben, would it be possible for you to arrange for your build bot to configure a mingw cross build and run the make target Windows/installers? That way we would have regular overnight builds available for testing on a regular basis. J' On Sun, May 09, 2021 at 12:52:42PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:

Re: windows installers

2021-05-09 Thread Ben Pfaff
Done. It might take a few minutes for the changes to propagate. If distribution is a problem, I can offer space on benpfaff.org. I pay for 4 TB per month of network transfer and I only ever use a tiny fraction of that. On Sun, May 9, 2021 at 12:41 PM Harry Thijssen wrote: > > Hi > > @Ben: coul