>
> > Does anyone think it would be worth it for me to find a way (with
> Cygwin or Mingw) to build LMMS on windows for debugging? It would make my
> life easier, and I'm wondering if it would do the same for anyone else.
@Sam,
This has been brought up before and I believe those who have tried this
before have had limited success.
It is true that debugging on Windows has been tremendously difficult. A
good first step would be get proper support for stdout via the command line
<http://stackoverflow.com/a/617158/1466873>.
>From what I understand there are some slight differences between how Cygwin
and Mingw compile as Cygwin tries to simulate a Unix environment whereas
Mingw assumes to be running in a minimalist MSVC environment, so expect to
hit some snags.
You'll also want to write a wrapper script around fetching the precompiled
binaries via the tobydox mingw ppa
<https://launchpad.net/~tobydox/+archive/ubuntu/mingw>, (or alternately
mirror them upstream to a cy-apt <https://github.com/transcode-open/apt-cyg>
repository)
To do this programatically, I think you'd need to parse the Package
definition for your architecture i.e. binary-i386
<http://ppa.launchpad.net/tobydox/mingw/ubuntu/dists/trusty/main/binary-i386/Packages>
or binary-amd64
<http://ppa.launchpad.net/tobydox/mingw/ubuntu/dists/trusty/main/binary-amd64/Packages>
and
then have a way to extract the debian files to your system (or used a
forked version of dpkg with some force architecture flag?)
Once the dependencies are setup, I'm not sure how far you will get.
Someone more versed in the C++ standard libraries for MSVC vs Cygwin/GNU
would probably know much more. This really is where Toby usually chimes in
and schools us. :)
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On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 7:41 AM, Samuel Xifaras <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Does anyone think it would be worth it for me to find a way (with Cygwin
> or Mingw) to build LMMS on windows for debugging? It would make my life
> easier, and I'm wondering if it would do the same for anyone else.
>
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