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About Windows dependencies, it seems msys2 has a package manager which
has binaries for all dependencies (as well as allegro itself):
https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages
So at least when using mingw64 to compile, this should make a Windows
build extra easy.
On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 12:54 AM, Thomas Fjellstrom
<tfjellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun 27 Apr 2014 04:47:08 PM Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:
>> On Sun 27 Apr 2014 11:50:26 PM Beoran wrote:
>> > Elias, actually I agree. So, let's solve that problem first.
>> >
>> > I compiled Allegro for Windows (and MinGW) myself several times and
>> > even with good instructions it does take quite a bit of time to get it
>> > working. Compiling Allegro itself is easy, but compiling all the
>> > dependencies is not. So I think we'll probably have to provide them
>> > too as source and binaries as far as the license allows it.
>> >
>> > Thomas, I looked into a free compile farm, but it seems like I was
>> > out of the loop on Sourceforge closing theirs years ago, which is a
>> > bummer. There are other compile farms but they tend to be Linux-only.
>> > I did find this which could enable us to run MSVC under Wine:
>> > http://code.google.com/p/wrapmsvc/, but I didn't have time to test it
>> > yet. A Windows VM would be nice, but do we have to get a license on a
>> > Windows server edition to do this legally?
>>
>> Someone would need to get a windows license for it. I have windows 7 and 8
>> licenses just sitting around I think, so it shouldn't be a problem. I'd
>> install it as a vm on vmware. Consumer copies of newer windows are allowed
>> to be virtualized so long as you aren't also using that key on another vm
>> or physical machine.
>>
>> I looked into Suse's build farm for another project, it could probably be
>> used for some linux packages. It may or may not be easier to use it, or
>> setup a build service thing ourselves.
>
> Hm, I just found a project called Buildbot which might work. Seems to be cross
> platform.
>
>> > Kind Regards,
>> >
>> > Bjorn.
>> >
>> >
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