Re: GSoC project about binary packaging

[Patrick Noffke]

On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On 2 July 2013 15:06, Patrick Noffke <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> Sorry to come into this discussion late.  Am I correct that the
>> Windows installer file can only be created on a Windows machine (i.e.
>> you have to run NSIS on Windows)?
>
> No, this seems to be false, e.g.:
>
>     http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/nsis
>

I take back what I said about cross-compiling nsis.
MINGW_CROSS_PREFIX passed to scons in src/nsis.mk is probably just for
nsis to find the mingw dependencies.

I should really just try building mxe-octave. :-\

Pat