Win-builds
(Free) Software Building and Packaging For Windows
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News
1.5.0 - 28/11/2015
1.5-rc3 - 15/12/2014
- All applicable security updates done
- Package manager on Windows cleans upon exit
- Smaller installer on Windows
- libdvdread updated to videolan's version; libdvdnav and libdvdcss added
- Support for upgrading from 1.4 to 1.5 on Windows and Linux
- fribidi doesn't use glib's memory allocators anymore
- Cross-compilation support for qmake
- Much faster installation on Linux thanks to a stripped-down installatio of Qt
- Various improvements with the script which updates a shell with the right environment for the chosen toolchain on Linux and compatibility fixes for zsh
1.5-rc2 - 03/12/2014
- GUI package manager
- GUI installer
- Much simpler installation on Linux
- Updated installation instructions for Linux which are more straight-forward and cover more distributions
- Single executable installer on Windows
- 30 more packages
- Usual very long list of small improvements and version updates
- More automated builds of packages on Linux, drastically shortening package development cycles
- Completed the documentation on packaging
- Put back default include paths for GCC on Windows
- Simpler switching between toolchains
1.4.0 - 25/05/2014
1.4.0 - 25/05/2014
- Documentation updates.
- Pango's cache is properly created at install.
- Post-inst actions failed if installation was not started from command-line.
- Fontconfig's font.conf had a hardcoded path.
- Yypkg retries downloads which have failed.
- Yypkg is fully compatible with OCaml 3.12.1.
- Checked build with Ubuntu 12.04.
- Yypkg always tries to guess its installation prefix now.
- Much improved download progress information.
- Add madplay and libid3tag (mostly to test libmad).
- Improved website.
1.4-beta1 - 10/05/2014
- Merged all the package manager executables together.
- The package manager is now its own installer.
- Much simpler install process on Windows.
- Updated packages, numerous small fixes.
- Easier package updates.
- Removal of the chroot for Linux usage.
- Cleaner and faster build process on Linux.
- Updated documentation.
1.3.0 - 11/01/2014
1.3.0 - 11/01/2014
- All executables in bin/ have the .exe extension now (applies to gcc.exe, openssl.exe, xmlwf.exe from expat).
- Many small fixes to the installer scripts for windows platforms.
- Update to mingw-w64 3.1.0 (maintenance release).
- Don't run gtk and gdk cache update tools on Cygwin on XP/2k3 (they crash); ask the user to run them from a fresh cmd.exe.
- The 'win-builds-switch' script used 'exit'; it now uses 'return'.
1.3-rc1 - 22/12/2013
- Fixed the “mingw” symlink in the root dir on windows.
- Implement reparse point handling in Yypkg for the symlink fallback instead of calling mklink.exe (unavailable on XP).
- Fixed wrong mirror in the Linux chroot.
- Fix extra symlinks to gfortran binaries.
- Restore .exe extensions for GCC files.
- Some files weren't removed when uninstalling a package on Windows.
- Update libjpeg (fixes CVE-2013-6629).
- The OCaml cross-compiler was unable to build bindings to C libraries.
- Check that the 'win-builds-switch.sh' script is called in the right way by the user.
1.3-beta3 - 11/12/2013
- Fixes for dbus and yypkg.exe which was an old binary in 1.2.
- Improved documentation, add documentation for using with MSYS.
- The package metadata format changes (version field is now a free-form string).
1.3-beta2 - 4/12/2013
- Several fixes and mostly documentation or usability improvements.
1.3-beta1 - 27/11/2013
- Improved symlink fallbacks on windows.
- Proofread documentation.
- New yypkg binaries for windows.
- Improved ocaml cross-compiler setup.
- General improvements and bug fixes.
1.3-alpha2 - 14/11/2013
- GCC 4.8, Mingw-w64 v3, package updates.
- Nice symlink fallbacks on Windows (junctions and hardlinks as appropriate).