On Mon, 7 Feb 2022 at 17:10, Neal Gompa wrote:
>
> On Mon, Feb 7, 2022 at 11:20 AM Kevin Kofler via devel
> <devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> >
> > Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> > > Release build should be tested on Windows. It is easy to build and test
> > > natively with msys2 nowadays, or build for other targets. Why not use
> > > that?
> >
> > Because I do not have a computer running Windows, nor a Windows license.
> >
>
> For my hobbyist game development, I rely on the Fedora MinGW stack to
> be able to produce Windows builds for them. I do all my own
> development and work from Fedora Linux and I'd rather not change that.
>
> If anything, our MinGW stack is an amazing selling point compared to
> other distributions, because we provide a usable framework to build
> applications for Windows.

It really is great. GCC's C++17 std::filesystem code supports Windows,
but is entirely developed on Fedora. I cross-compile using mingw-w64
and test using Wine. If I couldn't do that on Fedora, the Windows
support simply wouldn't exist.
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