b) Porting
III. Packagers
a) The build system
- b) Help requested
+ b) Targeting Win32
I. Users
problems, especially any bugs which complicate packaging on certain
systems, please send back patches.
-b) Help requested
+b) Targeting Win32
-If you can create packages for your favorite platform, please send them
-back to me and/or place the package in a public repository appropriate for
-your distribution or platform. I would especially appreciate packages in
-common formats such as deb, rpm, or OS X app bundles.
+If you have a working mingw32 toolchain with all the dependencies, you can
+build a win32 binary using a command such as this:
+
+./configure --host=mingw32 --prefix=/usr/mingw32/usr
+
+where mingw32 is the correct name of your toolchain. You can get all the
+non-standard dependencies from the git repository at win32/win32-libs.zip.
+Just unzip the contents of that archive into your toolchain. If everything
+goes smoothly, you should have a yoink.exe appropriate for the win32
+platform. You can then build a complete installer using "make package" if
+you have nsis installed.