Dan Berrange (in particular) and myself (a little) have done quite a
bit more work on mingw in Fedora.

We now have:
- automatic dependency generation
- automatic stripping of binaries
- a collection of RPM macros which simplify writing spec files
- ~10 working libraries

Anyway, check out the development repository:
http://hg.et.redhat.com/misc/fedora-mingw--devel/

Please read the README file first!

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Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> Dan Berrange (in particular) and myself (a little) have done quite a
> bit more work on mingw in Fedora.
>
> We now have:
> - automatic dependency generation
> - automatic stripping of binaries
> - a collection of RPM macros which simplify writing spec files
> - ~10 working libraries
>
> Anyway, check out the development repository:
> http://hg.et.redhat.com/misc/fedora-mingw--devel/
>
> Please read the README file first!

ETA into fedora?

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On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 11:54:16AM +0200, Farkas Levente wrote:
> Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > Dan Berrange (in particular) and myself (a little) have done quite a
> > bit more work on mingw in Fedora.
> >
> > We now have:
> > - automatic dependency generation
> > - automatic stripping of binaries
> > - a collection of RPM macros which simplify writing spec files
> > - ~10 working libraries
> >
> > Anyway, check out the development repository:
> > http://hg.et.redhat.com/misc/fedora-mingw--devel/
> >
> > Please read the README file first!
>
> ETA into fedora?

Too many unknowns to give any sensisble prediction. We're waiting on the
releng/infrastructure guys to create a dedicated build root for mingw
stuff, and set things to it publishes into a separate YUM repo as per
earlier Fedora Board decision[1]. I've no idea how hard/complex this
is, or how long it'll take. Once that's done then we need to bootstrap
the build, and get all the packages through review.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/Meetings/2008-07-15

Be nice to have it all done for F10, but no idea if that is practical
as the infrastructure team is very busy.

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On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 11:54:16AM +0200, Farkas Levente wrote:
> Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > Dan Berrange (in particular) and myself (a little) have done quite a
> > bit more work on mingw in Fedora.
> >
> > We now have:
> > - automatic dependency generation
> > - automatic stripping of binaries
> > - a collection of RPM macros which simplify writing spec files
> > - ~10 working libraries
> >
> > Anyway, check out the development repository:
> > http://hg.et.redhat.com/misc/fedora-mingw--devel/
> >
> > Please read the README file first!
>
> ETA into fedora?

As Dan said, but don't let that stop you if you want to download and
play with it, and send patches :-) It's currently buildable on
Rawhide, and possibly on earlier versions of Fedora too.

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Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 11:54:16AM +0200, Farkas Levente wrote:
>> Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>>> Dan Berrange (in particular) and myself (a little) have done quite a
>>> bit more work on mingw in Fedora.
>>>
>>> We now have:
>>> - automatic dependency generation
>>> - automatic stripping of binaries
>>> - a collection of RPM macros which simplify writing spec files
>>> - ~10 working libraries
>>>
>>> Anyway, check out the development repository:
>>> http://hg.et.redhat.com/misc/fedora-mingw--devel/
>>>
>>> Please read the README file first!
>> ETA into fedora?
>
> As Dan said, but don't let that stop you if you want to download and
> play with it, and send patches :-) It's currently buildable on
> Rawhide, and possibly on earlier versions of Fedora too.

actually we use and older version of mingw on rhel:
http://www.lfarkas.org/linux/packages/redhat/5/i386/
which works, but i'd like to test these new packages too. for me it'd be
much better if you can upload somewhere your src.rpm files and i can try
to rebuild them on rhel-5 (and may be other win32 packages like openssl,
gdk, glib, gtk, etc.).

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On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 03:40:59PM +0200, Farkas Levente wrote:
> which works, but i'd like to test these new packages too. for me it'd be
> much better if you can upload somewhere your src.rpm files and i can try
> to rebuild them on rhel-5 (and may be other win32 packages like openssl,
> gdk, glib, gtk, etc.).

We don't have srpms right now. Will do later when we start getting
packages ready for review. However the spec files + patches that you
can find in the mercurial repository should be enough to rebuild
everything.

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On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 2:10 AM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
> Too many unknowns to give any sensisble prediction. We're waiting on the
> releng/infrastructure guys to create a dedicated build root for mingw
> stuff, and set things to it publishes into a separate YUM repo as per
> earlier Fedora Board decision[1]. I've no idea how hard/complex this
> is, or how long it'll take. Once that's done then we need to bootstrap
> the build, and get all the packages through review.
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/Meetings/2008-07-15
>
> Be nice to have it all done for F10, but no idea if that is practical
> as the infrastructure team is very busy.

As requested by FESCo, in the post-Board meeting discussion. I've put
together a strawman proposal on how to move forward:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Jspaleta/Draft

Please have everyone in the MinGW SIG take a look at that strawman.
And please note this is a starting point for discussion as to specific
policies. If this draft doesn't cover any specific concerns you have
moving forward let me know. I've tried to write the draft in such a
way such that the policy issues before FESCo are orthogonal to the
issue of initial project resource allocation.

I've also put the MinGW Repository formation into the FESCo issue
tracker system:
https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/2

I will be be in attendance at the FESCo meeting whenever FESCo takes
up the issue. If the MinGW SIG is not ready to move forward with a
discussion with FESCo, let me know and I'll make sure the ticket isn't
acted on until a rep from MinGW SIG can be in attendance at the FESCo
meeting.

-jef

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