MinGW RPM packages - discontinued

[Hans Leidekker]

Hi all,

This is a message for those who used or contributed to the cross compiler
packages available from this URL:

 http://mirzam.it.vu.nl/mingw/

Quoting myself from that page:

 I have decided to stop maintaining these packages. The original incentive
 to create these packages was to be able to build Wine's test suite as PE
 executables on Fedora. Wine recently changed its build system to use Wine's
 own headers and import libraries when cross compiling the test suite, which
 means that the mingw-w32api package (where most of the action was) is no
 longer needed. 

 Another reason is that I'm moving towards Ubuntu as my main development
 platform.

 -Hans

[Vitaliy Margolen]

Hans Leidekker wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This is a message for those who used or contributed to the cross compiler
> packages available from this URL:
>
> http://mirzam.it.vu.nl/mingw/
>
> Quoting myself from that page:
>
> I have decided to stop maintaining these packages. The original incentive
>  to create these packages was to be able to build Wine's test suite as PE
>  executables on Fedora. Wine recently changed its build system to use Wine's
>  own headers and import libraries when cross compiling the test suite, which
>  means that the mingw-w32api package (where most of the action was) is no
>  longer needed.
>
> Another reason is that I'm moving towards Ubuntu as my main development
>  platform.

Thank you very much for all the hard work you did maintaining those RPMs! 
Your hard work is greatly appreciated.

One use that will be missed is cross-compiling PE binaries that are not Wine 
tests.

Regards,
Vitaliy.

[Hans Leidekker]

On Saturday 31 May 2008 22:50:38 Vitaliy Margolen wrote:
> Thank you very much for all the hard work you did maintaining those RPMs! 
> Your hard work is greatly appreciated.

Thank you. I'd like to extend this thank you to the people who contributed
patches.
> One use that will be missed is cross-compiling PE binaries that are not Wine 
> tests.

I know, several people told me they were using the compiler for other purposes.
One guy told me he was working on 64bit Fedora packages based on mine and intended
get them upstream. Don't know what became of it but who knows, someone may fill
the void some day.

 -Hans

[Hin-Tak Leung]

Hans Leidekker wrote:
> On Saturday 31 May 2008 22:50:38 Vitaliy Margolen wrote:
> > Thank you very much for all the hard work you did maintaining those RPMs! 
> > Your hard work is greatly appreciated.
> > <snipped>

I would like to say a thank-you as well. I only wrote to Mingw-devel and R-devel
(an R package I regularly cross-compile for), but I have started distributing
my cross-compiler rpm's a few days ago, and I learned from yours.

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=217165

Mine is just one giant package put under /opt/mingw - there are two other
sourceforge projects (besides mingw itself, which does not) which distribute
cross-compiler rpms - one doing 4.3 and one doing 4.0.

As my primary purpose is compiling and build the windows build of something I 
wrote, I chose to keep it simple - it is just one rpm (unlike the other 
projects), and it is just a simple wrapper around the cross-build script
rather than trying to scavenge it.

Hope it is useful to the people.

Hin-Tak