2012/2/4 John Freed <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:john.freed.paris@gmail.com">john.freed.paris@gmail.com</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
well, I've done some more fairly extensive testing on Fedora and have concluded that there are some fundamental problems. So I'm proposing a wiki page that simply recommends installing VirtualBox and Ubuntu 11.10, then following the directions.<div>
<br></div><div>It seems the Win32 build page is specifically aimed at Ubuntu. It was noted on this list just recently that even Debian doesn't work -- it doesn't have a recent enough mingw32-runtime (even in testing).</div>
<div><br></div><div>Fedora has the right runtime, but its mingw-gcc is built without "--disable-shared", and as a result the final binary is different from the Ubuntu one. Specifically, it needs the libstdc++-6 and libgcc_s_sjlj-1 DLLs to be shipped with the EXE file to work.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Fedora also uses Qt 4.8, as I mentioned earlier. That turns out to require only minor patches.</div><div><br></div><div>Here is what I am considering for the wiki page:</div><div><br></div><div>1) State that the recommended approach is to install VirtualBox and Ubuntu 11.10. Give instructions. </div>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I am planning to do that next weekend (virtual machine + Debian/Ubuntu). You want to join forces? </div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>2) Next, give a warning. If you want to build on Fedora, you will get a different binary. In particular, this binary will require two extra DLL files: libstdc++-6 and libgcc_s_sjlj-1</div><div>3) give the instructions for the Fedora build.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I'm wondering if the problem with the --disable-shared might go away with the mingw64, so I'm looking forward to that.</div><div><br></div>
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