WinLibs: Standalone build of GCC and MinGW-w64 for Windows

Re:WinLibs: Standalone build of GCC and MinGW-w64 for Windows by metadat on Sunday April 30, 2023 @11:06AM (#35763203)

Is the source code and build instructions used available for folks who want to reproduce the standalone artifacts?

This reminds me of why I stopped trying to compile C++ stuff on windows, there are too many incompatible series of MSVC and project compilation can be a major undertaking.

Maven + JDK and Golang build systems aren't perfect, but they tend to be predictable and have worked out a lot better for me across many dimensions. :)

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Re:WinLibs: Standalone build of GCC and MinGW-w64 for Windows by mdaniel on Sunday April 30, 2023 @02:52PM (#35765460)

I believe it's this: https://github.com/brechtsanders/winlibs_recipes (MIT) combined with https://github.com/brechtsanders/winlibs_tools (GPLv2). Although as a drive-by observer, if the quality of those "recipes" (and the idea that one needed to cowboy up some shell scripts to build all that stuff versus using a more formal build system) is any indication, I am for sure not the target audience of this project

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I also had no idea one could have "No commit message" since git has always given me the finger:

  $ git commit --allow-empty -F/dev/null
  Aborting commit due to empty commit message.

Looking at the commit <https://github.com/brechtsanders/winlibs_recipes/commit/0cf2...> I'm guessing it may be some `git am` trickery at work since `git am` does cheerfully apply apply the commit if the subject line is just `[PATCH]`

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