Just so you know on the official repo
On 2025-01-14 02:59 AM, 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
Just so you know on the official repo there are several mingw packages. On
AUR, in order to build wine-wow64 (if using this one from AUR you don't need
any multilib package) you need those mingw packages, in particular for
wine-wow64.
So be careful when removing mingw stuff.
BTW, I don't agree with the adopted enforcing, but as it is, care must be taken
when removing packages...
Look at the makedepends for wine-wow64:
https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=wine-wow64#n50
which actually installs:
% pacman -Qs mingw
local/mingw-w64-binutils 2.43-1 (mingw-w64-toolchain mingw-w64)
Cross binutils for the MinGW-w64 cross-compiler
local/mingw-w64-crt 12.0.0-1 (mingw-w64-toolchain mingw-w64)
MinGW-w64 CRT for Windows
local/mingw-w64-gcc 14.2.0-3 (mingw-w64-toolchain mingw-w64)
Cross GCC for the MinGW-w64 cross-compiler
local/mingw-w64-headers 12.0.0-1 (mingw-w64-toolchain mingw-w64)
MinGW-w64 headers for Windows
local/mingw-w64-winpthreads 12.0.0-1 (mingw-w64-toolchain mingw-w64)
MinGW-w64 winpthreads library
And as mentioned, they are part of the official repos, but I guess there are
counterparts on AUR, or complimentary mingw packages as well.
Just so you know.
--
Javier
