I run mustella directly from my IDE (IntelliJ). I don't have Cygwin installed.
MinGW requires no setup. Just unzip a file and away you go. -Nick On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 1:55 PM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: > Yes, but GCC on Windows requires MinGW right? Is that less onerous than > Cygwin? In theory we should already have Cygwin or some unix shell to run > Mustella. > > -Alex > > On 6/3/14 8:27 AM, "Nicholas Kwiatkowski" <nicho...@spoon.as> wrote: > > >Alex, > > > >I use GCC to make my native extensions. GCC is available on both Mac and > >Windows (and Linux) and is not a heavy requirement to compile. You don't > >need Visual Studio to compile .DLLs on Windows. > > > http://quetwo.com/2011/10/31/creating-an-windows-air-native-extension-with > >-eclipse-part-1/ > > > >-Nick > > > > > > > >On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 12:49 AM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: > > > >> Well, I'm new to Native Extensions as well, but it appears you can't > >> create a single extension that works on both OSX and Windows. Folks > >>seem > >> to be using Visual Studio for Windows and Xcode for Mac. That seems > >>like > >> a lot of work and a complicated build environment. The nice thing about > >> the CrossBridge code is that it can be one cross-platform project. I'm > >> going to look into where the cygwin dependencies are in CrossBridge and > >> see if they can be removed, unless someone knows of a way to simplify > >>the > >> Native Extension development. > >> > >> -Alex > >> > >> On 6/2/14 2:35 PM, "Alex Harui" <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: > >> > >> >In theory, all PMC members with Windows computers have Cygwin or some > >> >shell script processor in place otherwise they cannot run Mustella. > >> > > >> >We could create a separate release package like we did for PixelBender, > >> >but seriously, how many of you are going to build the installer from > >> >sources? > >> > > >> >I'll look into a intel-only NativeExtension version of MD5 next. > >> > > >> >-Alex > >> > > >> >On 6/2/14 2:20 PM, "Michael A. Labriola" <labri...@digitalprimates.net > > > >> >wrote: > >> > > >> >>> -1 for Cygwin too :-( > >> >> > >> >> > >> >>Something to note for Windows Users, if you install git bash (which is > >> >>generally part of the windows install for git) you can use it in > >>place of > >> >>Cygwin. It might be a much easier way for us to move forward instead > >>of > >> >>requiring Cygwin. > >> >> > >> >>Mike > >> > > >> > >> > >
