On Friday, 2 March 2018 19:54:43 UTC, Alex Dubois  wrote:
> On Saturday, 10 February 2018 01:20:22 UTC, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki  wrote:
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> > On Fri, Feb 09, 2018 at 11:11:50AM -0800, b...@gmail.com wrote:
> > > On Wednesday, February 7, 2018 at 8:13:42 PM UTC-5, Marek 
> > > Marczykowski-Górecki wrote:
> > > > For anyone interested, here is instruction how to setup build
> > > > environment:
> > > > https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-builder-windows/
> > > > 
> > > > I know Rafał "Omeg" used Visual Studio for development, but I have no
> > > > idea if anything special was needed there. I see vs2012, vs2013, vs2015
> > > > etc directories in relevant repositories.
> > > 
> > > Hi Marek,
> > > 
> > > If you have time...
> > > 
> > > Just FYI, the instructions you linked to above no longer work. I say this 
> > > based on more than several hours of trying to figure out how to build the 
> > > tools. I get all the way, without errors or warnings, to the last step, 
> > > which is `make qubes`. That step throws an error about rpm not being 
> > > installed: "No rule to make target 'please.install.rpm.and.try.again', 
> > > needed by 'check.rpm'. Stop."
> > 
> > Hmm, exactly this issue should be fixed by:
> > https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-builder-windows/commit/5a637757d69dc952b0d19ef0cb86574ba54e0717
> > 
> > Check if you have qubes-builder/qubes-src/builder-windows/builder.conf,
> > with that content. Or, maybe something have changed in cygwin in the
> > meantime? What is the output of "uname -o" command?
> > 
> > - -- 
> > Best Regards,
> > Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
> > Invisible Things Lab
> > A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
> > Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
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> I am trying to bring the build env up to date.
> MinGW was probably selected initially with the view to:
> 1- cross-compile some components which comes from linux
> 2- ensure no GPL lock-in (as initially these components were closed source)
> 
> Would you now if this still apply or if the Unix stack is only used for file 
> management (i.e. not compiling with gcc)? Cygwin would allow easier 
> installation of python, bash, make, git in a single env.
> At the moment I am using:
> - MinGW/MSYS (legacy)
> - Windows Git version (launched from the most recent MinGW (using mingw-get)
> - Windows Embeded Python (in preparation, have not tested it)
> 
> I am hoping to make the windows build compatible with vs2017 and WDK10.
> But for now, I have only automated
> - qubes-builder set-up from get-be.ps1 file
> 
> sourceforge being DDOSed these last few days does not help...

Sorry, I found some use of gcc. So MinGW is required.

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