Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: [ANN] monotone 0.44 released

[Stephen Leake]

Quoting Patrick Georgi <address@hidden>:

> Am 20.05.2009 17:31, schrieb Stephen Leake:
> > I guess I should have looked ahead in the email traffic :).
> >
> > There are instructions for building the win32 installer in
> > monotone/win32/README. It packages mtn.exe and the required dlls.
> >
> > The installer currently on the monotone website contains a mtn.exe but
> > no dlls; I've now replaced it with the correct version.

Note that this replacement does not seem to have succeeded; I don't
understand why.

> I prefer to build monotone static (also on Solaris), and the mtn.exe I
> posted works.

How do you accomplish this? The monotone Makefile builds a dynamically
linked executable.

Hmm. Maybe there's a configure switch? I don't see one.

We should use the Makefile in the distribution, unmodified.

> Using dlls is especially useless as mtn has its own private copy in
> that setup.

True, but that could change in the future, and it is consistent with
other platforms.

I don't know if Inno setup is intelligent enough to check for the
existence of the dlls, and only install the missing ones. Or to
install them in a better (shared) place. That's something we should
look into.

At the very least, the build instructions in INSTALL and win32/README
should be kept up to date, and produce the setup executable on
the website.

-- Stephe