On 14-01-2025 09:59, Actionless Loveless wrote:
there is also big bunch of `*-mingw` (ie windows-only) packages in
AUR, but for some reason i saw the AUR moderators hunting only for
non-x86-64, but completely ignoring those - so indeed i think some
formal clarifications would be useful
The mingw packages are used by people that want to windows programs on a
linux system (cross-compiling) .
See
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Cross-compiling_tools_package_guidelines
and https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/MinGW_package_guidelines for info
on how they work.
