Comment 13 for bug 1022397

Thanks.

On Feb 25, 2013, at 2:19 AM, Stephen Kitt <email address hidden> wrote:

> pthreads is now available as libpthreads-mingw-w64 in Raring (13.04).
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> Title:
> mingw32 and mingw-w64 need zlib-dev and pthreads libraries
>
> Status in “mingw-w64” package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
> Status in “mingw32” package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
> Status in Debian GNU/Linux:
> Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
> I maintain open source software that cross-compiles for Windows using
> mingw. We would like our users to be able to compile on Ubuntu.
> Currently they cannot because there is not zlib-dev and there is no
> pthreads in the Ubuntu mingw-w64 build system.
>
> Are there any plans to add these? It is actually quite difficult to
> build them from sources on mingw, as it requires editing the
> distribution files. They should be included as part of the base
> system.
>
> Also, the program configure-mingw and configure-mingw64 are also not
> provided, and they should be.
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