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  1. Bug #1022397
  2. Comment #7

Comment 7 for bug 1022397

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Stephen Kitt (steve-sk2) wrote : Re: [Mingw-w64] [Bug 1022397] [NEW] mingw32 and mingw-w64 need zlib-dev and pthreads libraries

On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 14:48:21 -0000, Simson Garfinkel
<email address hidden> wrote:
> >> Also, the program configure-mingw and configure-mingw64 are also not
> >> provided, and they should be.
> >
> > I take it you're referring to Fedora-style configure scripts which add the
> > appropriate parameters to configure invocations? (As described in
> > http://<email address hidden>/msg02946.html
> > for example.) They're not provided in the upstream packages but I can
> > certainly add them (along with appropriate pkg-config links).
>
> Yes, that was what I was referring to. They are incredibly useful. Is
> there any way we could get them into the upstream packages?

I've had a good look at the Fedora scripts, and they are rather specific to
Fedora's layout for the MinGW-w64 packages; in fact they seem to be intended
first of all as packaging helpers to build other MinGW-w64-based packages in
Fedora. I can provide similar scripts for Debian (and Ubuntu), but I don't
think it would make much sense to try to get such scripts into the upstream
packages given that they would always end up being distribution-specific...

Regards,

Stephen