+++ Joerg Desch [2014-08-08 05:38 +0000]: > Today I've read about Debians Multiarch capabilities for the first time. > Is it possible to use this technique to build deb packages of libraries > for the mingw crosscompile toolchain too?
In principle, yes. In practice right now, no. Stephen Kitt has looked into this and gave a comprehensive talk at this year's mini-debconf (But I can't find a URL as I'm not sure that Sylvestre has actually uploaded them anywhere). I think this pdf is the slides though: http://www.sk2.org/talks/crossporting-to-windows.pdf It has the potential to be exceedingly slick and remove a whole load of packaging cruft we currently have to make windows/mingw-ready versions of libraries. There is some discussion on this therad: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/04/msg01243.html > I have to build Windows executables and therefore need some libraries. > For now, I build and install them locally. It would be fine to have a > way just to apt-get install them. > > Any chance? Yes, but it needs some work. I'm sure Stephen would love some help :-) I don't know if he's made any progress since feb. The trickiest part is that, having demonstrated that this works, we would have to change the definition of 'architecture independent' a little to include 'posix/non-posix' which mostly means moving a lot of libc stuff from arch-independent locations to arch-dependent locations, and that might be a hard sell in Debian. It _should_ only affect libc packaging, but work needs to be done to demonstrate that. Everything else is straightforward, and indeed a simplification of the current state for any package that produces win32/64 libs. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140808154122.gb7...@stoneboat.aleph1.co.uk
