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From: Enoch <ixew AT hotmail DOT com>
Subject: Re: [geda-user] geda-gaf on Windows - help needed
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 18:18:10 -0400
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Kai-Martin Knaak
<knaak AT iqo DOT uni-hannover DOT de> writes:

> 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. 
>
> ---<)kaimartin(>---

Thanks Kai,

An update to that installer is much anticipated.

Regards, Enoch.