On Fri, Sep 03, 2021 at 01:13:13PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
On Thu, Sep 02, 2021 at 04:58:01PM -0500, Zebediah Figura (she/her)
wrote:
> It's worth pointing out that we will almost certainly need a
> fallback solution, if we do end up using shared libraries and
> *-w64-mingw32-pkg-config. This is mainly because Fedora, as far as I
> can tell, is unusual in providing mingw libraries (Debian ships a
> scant few; Arch ships none and in fact only recently even started
> shipping the cross-compiler.) And even Fedora doesn't provide all of
> the libraries we need.
>
> I'm happy to work with Fedora and with other distributions to help
> get support across the board for mingw libraries and pkg-config, but
> it's going to be a hard sell to the Wine maintainers to rely on a
> feature that isn't widely supported. Still, we might be able to use
> it where it's present...
I'm surprised - I thought Debian had a fairly complete set but I
checked just now and they don't have many.
For Debian, I believe people typically add the "MXE" project apt repos
https://mxe.cc/
https://pkg.mxe.cc/repos/apt/dists/
Regards,
Daniel
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