On 06/25/2020 08:01 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Wine has soft-dependencies on two additional pieces of software to provide a 
> "full" experience.
> 
> * wine-gecko - Gecko web browser engine for Wine
> * wine-mono - .NET for Wine
> 
> I package both for Wine. They're typically updated at most a couple times per 
> year. Usually the updates bring with them problems that require major time to 
> fix. A FTBFS for wine-gecko took about two years to fix, but that was an 
> extreme case. Both packages use the MinGW (GCC-based) toolchain to compile 
> and we're lucky enough to also carry that toolchain in Fedora. We may be the 
> only distro to compile from source as other distros carry the binary that 
> upstream provides.
> 
> The bi-weekly Wine update last week brought with it a minor version 
> (5.0.0->5.1.0) wine-mono update. The update itself is not minor. The tarball 
> is now bundling a Clang LLVM-based MinGW toolchain in binary form that is 
> also required to compile the package. My first effort at stripping it out to 
> use our Fedora MinGW toolchain doesn't work with the Clang style CFLAGS they 
> have switched to. Before I spend more time de-bundling:
> 

Are you tying to build with mingw-gcc?  What errors are you getting?

-Tom

> I know bundled libraries are allowed, but what about bundled compilers?
> 
> I have not talked to upstream (Wine) on this change yet. I don't believe 
> upstream Mono, that Wine bases this code on, requires Clang.
> 
> Thanks,
> Michael
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