Win-builds
(Free) Software Building and Packaging For Windows
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| - | ====== Windows ====== | + | ====== Download and Installation ====== |
| + | Win-builds can be installed and used from either Windows or Linux: | ||
| - | Running win-builds on windows can be done through IDEs, MSYS, Cygwin or without any other toolset. Simply download and run the package manager. | + | * [[Download and Installation from Windows]] |
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| - | Installation doesn't change system settings and in particular doesn't change environment variables like PATH, PKG_CONFIG_PATH and PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR. For MSYS or Cygwin, also read how to switch to the toolchain you want. | + | |
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| - | More information can be found in the documentation; make sure you subscribe at least to the (security) announces mailing-list. | + | |
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| - | NOTE: the 64 bits toolchain requires a 64 bits host; installing on Windows XP or 2003 might work but is unsupported. | + | |
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| - | ====== Linux ====== | + | |
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| - | No fully cross-distribution binaries can be realistically provided on Linux. As such the process is slightly longer and on a separate page in the documentation. | + | |
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| - | The process should take around 5 minutes of user time and from 15 to 60 minutes of CPU time (modern desktop to Atom-class notebook). | + | |
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| - | ====== Linux Virtual Machines ====== | + | |
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| - | For quick tests, you can download a virtual machine and run it under one of QEMU, VirtualBox or VMWare. | + | |
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| - | The machine is a Ubuntu 14.04 with little software installed. | + | |
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| - | ====== Other systems ====== | + | |
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| - | It shall be possible to use win-builds on other systems too even if this has not been tried so far. The main requirement is a POSIX system with a GNU userspace (sed, cp, etc.). Building will follow the steps in the documentation for Linux. | + | |