Re: windows installers

[Michel Boaventura]

I think most of Windows' users aren't technical at all. To be honest, I think 
I've never met a Windows
developer in my life. Usually when users have a good technical knowledge they 
migrate to Linux.

Using my Dockerfile or John's script we currently can create a working PSPP 
copy for Windows (if you just copy
the installation path and double click on psppire.exe, it works), so I think 
it's only a matter of creating
the installer. I'll try to help this issue because I agree with Ben: your time 
is too precious for PSPP to be
spent making things work on Windows :)

On 21/05/16 09:53AM, John Darrington wrote:
> It sounds like you have cross-built and installed all the dependencies
> okay.   Just a few problems with the Windows/installers target which
> I wrote.
>
>
> On Sat, May 15, 2021 at 10:41:43PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>
> make -j128 Windows/installers DESTDIR=$PWD/inst
>      is just an exercise in frustration because
>          cp `$(CC) -print-file-name=libwinpthread-1.dll` $@
>      just prints libwinpthread-1.dll even though I do have that dll in
>      /usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/bin/libwinpthread-1.dll
>
> This sounds like Fedora trying to be too clever for its own good -
> a similar general problem to what Harry was struggling with.
>
>      and because
>          cp $(environment_dir)/bin/*.dll $@
>      is busted because it expands to
>      cp $(echo -fstack-protector -lssp | /usr/bin/sed -e 's/^-L//' -e
>      's|/lib$||')/bin/*.dll Windows/nsis-bin
>      which obviously isn't helpful.
>
> Yes, I had a nasty feeling that this LDFLAGS/sed based expression might
> pose some portability problems.
>
>      It's very frustrating that there are so many Windows users but no
>      Windows developers.
>
> That's just life I'm afraid.  Everybody wants something, but very few are
> prepared to do any work in order to get it.
>
>
> J'
>

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Michel Boaventura

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