[Box Backup-dev] Win32

[Chris Wilson]

Hi Ben,

>>  How about if someone runs a script to regularly autogenerate and configure 
>>  the trunk for Win32 (on a *nix box) and posts tarballs that Windows users 
>>  can download?
>
> I'd prefer not to have the autogen_* stuff in SVN.

I didn't mean to have it in SVN - rather to autogenerate it and tar it up, 
and make tarballs available on a separate server. However, I could also 
upload them to another SVN server such as my own, if people prefer to have 
access to the code via SVN.

> Is such a script difficult? I could run it as a cron job on the 
> repository server as long as it'll be happy with just a plain OpenBSD 
> environment.

The problem would be the stuff autodetected by configure, which would be 
targeted for your platform rather than Win32. If you install MinGW and 
cross-compile with that, it should work, more or less - MinGW and Visual 
C++ don't provide identical features, so some patching of config.h might 
be necessary.

If you want to try this, I've put (incomplete) instructions on 
cross-compiling with MinGW on a *nix box in 
docs/backup/win32_build_on_linux_using_mingw.txt.

Cheers, Chris.
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