MSYS Mingw packages with MSVC

[Patrick von Reth]

One reason why we are building some packages by our selves is that they are
linked against our libs with our configuration.
I prepared a gpgme-src ,gpg-error-src and a uptodate libaussuan-src package,
all msys, I need them for mingw-w64.
But if I commit them I will break the msvc build for systems with
EMERGE_SOURCEONLY enabled.
Create a CMake build system for those packages would be a lot of work, work
that is not realy needed.
Of course for some packages it is use full to have a dual build system, for
example libintl(gettext).
But for the most of the packages it would require hours of work by many
people, and this slows down the progress of the whole winkde development.
Currently we are mainly activ in porting 3d-party dependency's.

Regards
Patrick

On 27 July 2010 11:08, Ralf Habacker <ralf.habacker at freenet.de> wrote:

> Andre Heinecke schrieb:
> > Hi,
> > I was just talking to Patrick (von Reth) about packages that only support
> a
> > Unixoid build system. We were thinking about using binary packages (as we
> do
> > now) but make the source packages for EMERGE_SOURCEONLY Hard depend on
> > MinGW(-w32) and MSYS even if the compiler is chosen to be the proprietary
> > Microsoft one. And archvie compatibility through renaming the dll.a to
> lib or
> > using pexports.
> >
> > Any ideas on that or objections to having MinGW installed as MSVC user?
> >
> One problem I see is that for that package no debugging information will
> be available. One reason for using source packages instead of the
> related binary one is the possibility to have debug symbols .
> >
> > This would improve in our opinion the current situation where serveral
> > packages are just blocked if you do not use MinGW/Msys
> >
> to which packages are you refering ? Then we talk better about options
> how to solve this blocking :-)
>
> Regards
> Ralf
>
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