Re: [dev] Windows binaries

From: Nick <suckless-dev_AT_njw.me.uk>
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 21:31:48 +0100

> This is about helping your fellow victims of Redmond oligopoly.

I'm not sure providing Windows binaries would be a good way of doing
that. And reports of issues on the mailing list from Windows users
unwilling to compile their own software strikes me as an annoying
possibility.

But. I have used mxe[0] to build things for Windows quite
successfully, with my own small projects. It isn't very hard work,
though maybe cygwin would be less work or more reliable; I haven't
used it for that. Anyway, if you're curious, an example of it is in
a makefile[1] and described at the bottom of a readme[2].

0. http://mxe.cc
1. https://gitorious.org/ancient-greek-training-for-tesseract/tesstrainingtools/blobs/master/Makefile.mxe
2. https://gitorious.org/ancient-greek-training-for-tesseract/tesstrainingtools/blobs/master/README

Nick
Received on Thu Apr 18 2013 - 22:31:48 CEST

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