Re: Windows support

From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@eudaptics.com>
Date: Jul 26, 2007, 10:35 UTC
Message-ID: <46A878F5.AA590D20@eudaptics.com>
In-Reply-To: <200707261111.54439.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>

Robin Rosenberg wrote:

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> torsdag 26 juli 2007 skrev Johannes Schindelin:
> > Seriously again, the biggest problem with Han-Wen's installer was that it
> > insists on cross-compiling _all_ the packages.  This makes it easy for
> > Han-Wen to upgrade packages and compile the thing on Linux in one go.
> > However, it never worked with bash, and I could not fix it: I can read
> > Python, but not _that_ Python.
> 
> Will windows developers need to get Linux just in order to do a two line fix,
> or will the build process work on Windows too (provided the developer gets
> a number of extra packages).

The build process works on Windows, too. That's how I do it. README.MinGW lists the packages that you need.

-- Hannes

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