[Mingw-users] RPM packages
Vasileios Anagnostopoulos
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Sam Thursfield
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Vasileios Anagnostopoulos
<fithi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I noticed that there are many packages for mingw at
>
> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/windows:/mingw:/win32/openSUSE_Factory/noarch/?C=M;O=D
>
> I would like to ask whether there is any attempt by mingw project to use
> them. For example by providing an rpm like tool. It seems that many more
> packages could be put there for the benefit of mingw users. But it is very
> hard to use them in an msys environment.
This third-party script: https://github.com/dieterv/download-mingw-rpm
allows you use those OBS packages in mingw
Sam
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Dieter Verfaillie
> Hi Vasileios
>
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Vasileios Anagnostopoulos
> <fithi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I noticed that there are many packages for mingw at
>>
>>
>> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/windows:/mingw:/win32/openSUSE_Factory/noarch/?C=M;O=D
>>
>> I would like to ask whether there is any attempt by mingw project to
>> use
>> them. For example by providing an rpm like tool. It seems that many
>> more
>> packages could be put there for the benefit of mingw users. But it
>> is very
>> hard to use them in an msys environment.
>
> This third-party script:
> https://github.com/dieterv/download-mingw-rpm
Might be better to refer to the original author's repository as mine is
just a fork (and will probably disappear once the merge request is
handled):
https://github.com/mkbosmans/download-mingw-rpm
> allows you use those OBS packages in mingw
It allows you to download and unpack the .rpm files built by the
openSUSE Build Service into a self contained prefix. Optionally,
it can also create "bundle" zip files of such self contained prefixes.
That said, last time I looked OBS did not use mingw.org's GCC
(targeting
i686-pc-mingw32) but mingw-w64 (targeting i686-w64-mingw32 or
x86_64-w64-mingw32) instead. It is my understanding that mixing
packages
built for different targets is not recommended.
If I understood this correctly(?) then no, the download script is not
meant
to allow somebody to use packages from OBS in a MinGW/MSYS environment.
mvg,
Dieter
Charles Wilson
> In common with many of the Linux distributors, OpenSUSE provide packages
> derived from MinGW, to furnish Linux-->MinGW cross-compilers. They do this
> without formal reference to MinGW.org, and we provide no formal support for
> their efforts. Sadly, none of these projects appear to exhibit any incentive
> to contribute back to MinGW.org.
And sadly, most of those cross compilers appear to use sjlj exception
handling (like some of TDM's compilers, and the mingw64 compilers), not
the dw2 exception handling that mingw.org's compilers use. Hence, those
sjlj packages are not compatible with (a) libraries provided by
mingw.org, nor (b) mingw.org's compilers.
The reverse is also true.
In the ideal future, the SEH effort that Kai and friends over at mingw64
are doing will be complete (including teaching GDB how to deal with it),
and everybody -- TDM, mingw.org, mingw64, and all the linux cross
compiler providers -- will switch over to SEH. I can dream, can't I?!
--
Chuck
ralph engels
--
Ralph Engels
Earnie Boyd
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 5:08 AM, ralph engels <ralph...@gmail.com> wrote:
> True for standard mingw using these packages will not work but i use them
> with some succes on mingw64 (a few needed recompilation because of internal
> paths being different "mostly affects tools that use bash scripts or
> otherwise rely on a unix shell"). Luckily most of the sources and patches
> from there RPM repo compile just fine with msys/mingw, there are a few cases
> where you need work around some shortcommings of the Msys shell but they are
> luckily rare enough.
Doesn't RPM build the source package rather than offering a binary?
This can be good but on Windows can be very bad because of the amount
of time it takes to do the build.
--
Earnie
-- https://sites.google.com/site/earnieboyd
Ralph Engels
Hash: SHA1
There are precompiled versions on the RPM site but yes RPM can also
build the sources on the users machine. Unfortunatly i had little
succes getting the windows port of the RPM build manager to work on
windows so i did recompilation by reading the dist script for the
right switches by hand. If i manage to get it working i can drop a
line if theres any interrest in having an RPM package manager for windows.
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