On Sat, 30 Dec 2017, Sven Schreiber wrote: > Am 28.12.2017 um 21:24 schrieb Allin Cottrell: >> Merry post-Christmas to all ;-) >> >> I don't know if anyone has yet tried using the new-ish facility to build >> gretl on Windows, but in case anyone's interested the materials at >> >> http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/pub/gretl/winbuild/ > > Thanks again for this cross-platform effort. Here's my experience (or the > first part of it) on Windows 7 64bit: > > - The file mingw-gretl... is always re-downloaded at every attempt, not > cached. That's not too bad because it isn't very large. > > - Apart from a thorough overhaul and update of the MSYS/MinGW installation I > had to add the following packages --apparently not included in pkglist.txt-- > in order to get rid of a "no suitable compiler found" message: > > [pacman -S --needed ....] > base-devel mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain mingw-w64-x86_64-fftw > mingw-w64-x86_64-gtk2 mingw-w64-x86_64-gtksourceview2 > > (because per default gtk3 is there but not gtk2)
Thanks for testing, Sven, and for the missing dependencies. I'll fix that as soon as I can but I'm on the road right now (little holiday). Allin
