Meeting: 3rdparty and nightlies

[Dmitry Kazakov]

Hi, Alvin!

There was a report that is still necessary for Krita itself somehow, though
I don't know the details:

https://invent.kde.org/graphics/krita/-/commit/393db6d64296fdbc3589059ac3e0ae081a467212


On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 1:06 PM Alvin Wong <alvin at alvinhc.com> wrote:

> We do need the Windows SDK to sign binaries and package the msix.
> On 25/1/2023 17:57, Dmitry Kazakov wrote:
>
>
>
>> For Windows you likely will need to create a custom image due to Krita's
>> use of MIngW-LLVM and Strawberry Perl among other things. Given you still
>> need at least part of the Windows SDK, please use windows-msvc2019 as your
>> base (which also includes Python and Git) - the Windows SDK components are
>> a real mission to get installed reliably in Docker which took more than a
>> few goes to get working and I don't fancy looking after that in more than
>> one place.
>>
>>
> Just a quick note:
> We should  recheck if Windows SDK is really necessary nowadays. Alvin said
> we shouldn't require fxc.exe anymore, since we switched to Google's version
> of Angle. Though I haven't personally checked that.
>
>

-- 
Dmitry Kazakov
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kimageshop/attachments/20230125/8c0bf53b/attachment-0001.htm>