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| author | Tor Lillqvist <tlillqvist@novell.com> | 2011-06-18 11:31:50 +0300 |
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| committer | Tor Lillqvist <tlillqvist@novell.com> | 2011-06-18 16:51:31 +0300 |
| commit | 297a2dfa089e5f165a8debc7b208516457c2a8ec (patch) | |
| tree | 74820576f9e2cf975f32e7480659c5f2e755a203 /README.cross | |
| parent | 24fad4ab423ef8005c17f2a2a635731da6696645 (diff) | |
Update the MinGW part a bit
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| -rw-r--r-- | README.cross | 18 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/README.cross b/README.cross index 0f21f9144d04..84006e858bb3 100644 --- a/README.cross +++ b/README.cross @@ -72,10 +72,12 @@ Cygwin gcc in its -mno-cygwin mode, and a native MinGW compiler. The it isn't already, and I have not attempted to check that it keeps working. Ditto for native MinGW; if one compiles natively on Windows, why not use Microsoft's compiler, as OOo/LO has been build for Windows -all the time using that and it works fine. In my opinion, it makes -sense to use MinGW only for cross-compilation. (Because of obvious -benefits like speed improvement, easier automation in systems like the -openSUSE Build Servce, etc.) +all the time using that and it works fine. + +In my opinion, the only case where it makes sense to use MinGW is for +cross-compilation. There is just too much crack on Windows anyway, and +it is a semi-miracle (well, make that the result of years of work) +that the MSVC build under Cygwin works as nicely as it does. MinGW is available as cross-build toolchains pre-packaged in more or less official packages for many Linux distros including Debian, Fedora @@ -83,9 +85,9 @@ and openSUSE. Personally I use the mingw32 packages in the openSUSE Build Service, running on openSUSE. It is somewhat unclear how well thought-out the conditionals and code -for MinGW inside the LibreOffice code actually is. The little I have -seen of it seems a bit randomish, with copy-pasting haveing been -preferred to factoring out differences. +for MinGW inside the OOo-originated code in LibreOffice actually +is. The little I have seen of it seems a bit randomish, with +copy-pasting having been preferred to factoring out differences. The autogen.lastrun I use for my MinGW cross-compilation experimentation is: @@ -114,12 +116,14 @@ CXX_FOR_BUILD=ccache g++ --with-max-jobs=1 --with-system-altlinuxhyph --with-system-boost +--with-system-cairo --with-system-curl --with-system-db --with-system-expat --with-system-gettext --with-system-hunspell --with-system-icu +--with-system-libpng --with-system-libwpd --with-system-libwpg --with-system-libwps |