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MinGW and why Linux users should care

Posted Nov 21, 2008 0:24 UTC (Fri) by brouhaha (guest, #1698)
Parent article: MinGW and why Linux users should care

I've been using MingW on Fedora for several years to build Windows versions of several of my programs. It's great when it works, but I've found it difficult to build working versions of the compiler, tools, libraries, etc. for various Fedora releases. Some combinations work well, and some fail to build for non-obvious reasons. Lately I've been doing the cross-development in a virtual machine running Fedora 7, because I wasn't able to get MingW to work properly on Fedora 8 or 9.

The IMCROSS project is an attempt to solve these problems in a distribution-neutral way, and helped a lot, but I'm more excited about seeing MingW become a part of Fedora, with proper RPM packages. Now that the Fedora MingW SIG is making these packages available for Fedora 10, I am even more eager to upgrade to Fedora 10, though I might spend a bit of time finding out whether those SRPMs build and work on Fedora 9. Thanks, guys!

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MinGW and why Linux users should care

Posted Nov 21, 2008 19:00 UTC (Fri) by danpb (subscriber, #4831) [Link]

90% of our development has been done on Fedora 9 in fact, the source RPMs we have published should work just fine on F9. We're targetting F10/11 for our initial push but its quite possible we'll build them for F9 too once we get stuff through the package review process. If you want to keep up on details, join the fedora mingw mailing list....

MinGW and why Linux users should care

Posted Nov 21, 2008 23:43 UTC (Fri) by rwmj (subscriber, #5474) [Link]

I'm actually gonna go one better than Dan and say that I built quite a lot of the mingw32-* packages on Fedora 8. The ones we are building now are all done against Fedora 10 and some of them no longer just install on Fedora 8, in particular I know the C++ ones don't because some fundamental C++ library has changed its soname.

The "official" line is we are supporting RHEL 5 (through EPEL) and Fedora ≥ 10. Anything else that works is luck, or you will have to join the project and help support it yourself.

Rich.