Re: [Caml-list] [ANN] opam-cross-windows

[Adrien Nader <adrien@notk.org>]

On Tue, May 24, 2016, whitequark wrote:
> On 2016-05-23 08:24, Soegtrop, Michael wrote:
> >Dear whitequark,
> >
> >>My repository uses MXE so that a wide range of native
> >>dependencies can be
> >>easily compiled. Moreover, you get opam-cross-android and
> >>opam-cross-ios
> >>for free, with exact same conventions, largely similar package
> >>sets, etc, and
> >>it is easy to port packages between the three as well.
> >
> >Thanks for the pointer to MXE (http://mxe.cc/). A very interesting
> >project! It might help to put MinGW cross opam for cygwin on a solid
> >foundation.
> >
> >One question: how happy are you with the make file approach of MXE? I
> >worked an something similar as MXE, but based on shell scripts, since
> >I thought "meta makefiles" might be hard to maintain and to debug and
> >shell scripts might be more appropriate for this task. But it was a
> >difficult decision and I still see some advantages in using make for
> >this.
> 
> I have absolutely none in-depth understanding of how MXE functions,
> but I
> can say that I never needed one, or wanted it, so I'd say it is a
> success :)
> Of course, this is only valid from the perspective of a user.

I make win-builds.org and there's a really large update coming amost any
time soon. Currently it has C and C++ things.

The goal is to make a distribution roughly in the Linux sense and it's
very "standard". MXE on the other hand only does static linking.
Different goals and approaches.

-- 
Adrien Nader