[dev-servo] Error while building servo in Windows

2017-03-16 Thread Malsha Ranawaka
Hello, I'm Malsha Ranawaka, a computer engineering undergraduate from University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. I'm interested in contributing to servo as part of Outreachy Round 14. I'm trying to build the servo project in Windows using MSYS (Mingw). I followed the steps in Github, however it gives

[dev-servo] Proposal: remove testing of and support for MinGW builds

2017-03-16 Thread Lars Bergstrom
Servo used the excellent MinGW toolchain to quickly stand up Servo builds on Windows and to provide us with Windows debugging support while the MSVC Rust toolchain was not yet ready. Now that the native MSVC is working well, we would like to remove testing of and support for those MinGW builds. Mi

Re: [dev-servo] Error while building servo in Windows

2017-03-16 Thread Jack Moffitt
It appears you do not have /c/Python27 in your path. Can you `echo $PATH` and see if it's missing? I would also suggest trying to build the MSVC version instead of the GNU toolchain version, but that also requires Python in the Windows path. jack. On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 8:07 AM, Malsha Ranawaka

Re: [dev-servo] Task for initial contribution for Outreachy '17 - CSS Layout Bug Squasher

2017-03-16 Thread Josh Matthews
Hi Malsha! Sorry for the delayed response. Looking at the CSS and layout issues was a good idea, but the layout issues in particular are rarely good candidates for a first contribution due to their complexity. Would you be interested in working on https://github.com/servo/servo/issues/15840 ins