Ann: Windows unified nightly builds
Viktor Szakáts
I'm glad to announce that starting yesterday you can
download "nightly" Windows binary builds in the form
of unified installer and .7z file (similar to official binary
Windows releases) from sf.net files area:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/harbour-project/files/binaries-windows/nightly/
These unified builds are made available around 02:00
CET every day, and they are like the official ones, though
with a more minimal approach: msvc, win64, wince, os/2,
ms-dos and linux binaries are not included. The reason for
this is to make the build process require less resources
(time, disk space and bandwidth). For most users this won't
be a problem and these can be enable if there is a need.
What _is_ included is mingw build using official mingw
distro (v4.5.0), bcc (v5.5.1) build and all contribs, including
QT ones. hbide and hbnetio tools are also part of the
official distro, and QT runtime is provided as well. Those
interested can also find the full build logs for download.
Pls note that the binaries may not be perfectly in sync
with the nightly sources, since they are generated on
different servers.
The build machine is kindly provided by Abe Buchinger.
Many thanks to him for this contribution.
Viktor
PS: I'm still looking for volunteers to keep the build setup
up to date. This means periodic updates to contribs,
mingw compile, the build script. Pls answer to this msg
if you can help.
Pritpal Bedi
> I'm glad to announce that starting yesterday you can
> download "nightly" Windows binary builds in the form
> of unified installer and .7z file (similar to official binary
> Windows releases) from sf.net files area:
>
This is really a positive step forward in the evolution of Harbour.
All components are working OK. Very well done. Thanks.
Thanks to Abe Buchinger too for providing the resources.
Regards
Pritpal Bedi