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. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
