Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > > Fair enough. How is it compiled from source (bootstrap steps if such > are required)? What compiler do you use to compile MSYS from source?
We handle that manually. Only MSYS developers will care and it is documented on www.mingw.org. > Does it make sense to have msys-compatible precompiled Gtk, Qt etc > available from Debian-Msys port? No. > Can I use compiled for mingw.org libraries in MSYS environment? Yes, it is the purpose of MSYS. > Can I use compiled for mingw-w64 libraries in MSYS environment? Yes, I believe the mingw64 users are using MSYS now. > Can I use Visual Studio compiled libraries in MSYS environment? Yes. MSYS doesn't provide a compiler for general consumption that uses the MSYS runtime. Therefore there is no need for a triplet that is publicly defined. It does provide a compiler for those who wish to help with MSYS development and the triplet remains privately defined in that case. > > The answers to above questions will tell us whether dpkg should have msys defined as debian-arch/os. > There is no reason for it. > > I have read the website. My first understanding that it is > user-space around Mingw.org runtime which runs on Windows platforms > to provide user tools to e.g. have a shell capable of running > autoconf and etc. Thus I thought that we can provide msys as a suite > of packages compiled as part of Debian-Mingw port. That way you could > install Debian-Mingw port in a chroot and instead of using > cross-compiler use e.g. linux + wine + msys = to get msys shell which > is equivalent to msys shell on Windows. > > Hope this makes sense. As you can see I'm not entirely sure what > MSYS is and what MSYS isn't and where that border lies on the > mingw-cygwin-w64 spectrum. > The goal of MSYS when I created it was simple, "Provide a tool that could be used to execute configure and make for the MinGW user." Executing uname in MSYS from my Windows XP 32bit system yields a string that will identify the environment as MINGW32 but that string is modifiable by the end user with an environment variable named MSYSTEM. Currently MSYSTEM is set to MINGW32 but could be set to MINGW64 or MINGW or CYGWIN or WINDOWS or SOMEOTHERFOOSTRING and the MSYS uname will report that system. Earnie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
