Re: MinGW cross compiled library packages for Debian

2006-03-21 Thread Volker Grabsch
On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 09:35:03PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > > 3.3) Using precompiled binaries. > > I don't think this is a good idea, and would probably get your package > rejected by the ftpmasters. I've written tools to produce such a conversion. See: https://dev.njh6.de/wiki/index.php

Re: MinGW cross compiled library packages for Debian

2006-03-10 Thread Volker Grabsch
Dear Debian Mentors, thanks a lot for your ideas and opinions. After having thought about it, I try to summarize what I plan to do: I don't think I should ask every Debian maintainer to produce mingw32 binary packages. Instead, I'll build extra Debian packages using the sources of GnuWin32 (http:

Re: MinGW cross compiled library packages for Debian

2006-03-09 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 11:21:37AM -0500, pryzbyj wrote: > On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 01:36:04PM +0100, Volker Grabsch wrote: > > Dear Debian Mentors, > > > > As already mentioned in my previous post, I plan to create mingw32 > > cross compile packages for zlib, SDL, etc., based on the mingw32-* > >

Re: MinGW cross compiled library packages for Debian

2006-03-09 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 01:36:04PM +0100, Volker Grabsch wrote: > Dear Debian Mentors, > > As already mentioned in my previous post, I plan to create mingw32 > cross compile packages for zlib, SDL, etc., based on the mingw32-* > packages. It isn't immediately clear that you intend to make these in

Re: MinGW cross compiled library packages for Debian

2006-03-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 13:36 +0100, Volker Grabsch wrote: > 1) The debian-devel list is too much traffic for me. Do I really >have to advertise my plans there? Not really, however it is courteous to do it, and there are archives. If you don't like mhonarc archives, there are lurker ones availa

MinGW cross compiled library packages for Debian

2006-03-09 Thread Volker Grabsch
Dear Debian Mentors, As already mentioned in my previous post, I plan to create mingw32 cross compile packages for zlib, SDL, etc., based on the mingw32-* packages. There are many ways to do that, so I'm asking here for advise, to create them in "best practise". Here are my questions: 1) The de