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From: Kai-Martin Knaak <knaak AT iqo DOT uni-hannover DOT de>
Subject: Re: [geda-user] geda-gaf on Windows - help needed
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 14:46:53 +0100
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Peter TB Brett wrote:

> I made some updates to minipack (the cross-compilation tool we usually
> use to build gEDA for Windows).  With my changes, it is now
> (tentatively) able to cross-compile Guile 2.x and geda-gaf 1.9.x for
> Windows.

Great news!
Last summer, I got stuck with the minipack cross compile. The script 
failed at the configure stage with some error message I did not 
comprehend. 
 

> Unfortunately I've run out of time to actually get it working and
> package it up, so I would greatly appreciate it if you could have a play
> and see if you can make it useful.

You may remember that a PHD student at my place built windows installers 
based on the binaries compiled by DJ and an open sourced installer 
assembler.
http://elektroniq/index.html/doku.php?id=english:geda_for_ms-windows
Updates to this effort got stalled by my inability to make the cross 
compile work.
 

> My minipack repository can be found here:
>     https://github.com/peter-b/minipack

:-)
I will give it a try. 

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