[Tux4kids-tuxtype-dev] [Tuxmath-devel] Status of next releases for tuxmath and tuxtype

Marcos Orfila morfila at marcosorfila.com
Sat Mar 6 18:54:06 UTC 2010


It would be great to have the new sources available for download!
Thank you for your work!

Regards,

     Marcos


2010/3/5 David Bruce <davidstuartbruce at gmail.com>

> Hi everyone,
>
> I've been promising that I would post new releases soon, so I thought
> I should let anyone who is interested about the current holdup.
> Mainly, I don't yet have suitable Windows builds, and historically
> I've always done simultaneous releases of a tarball (for the Linux and
> ultimately OSX folks) and a Windows binary so that the code would be
> identical for the same version number.
>
> If no one objects, I'll just make source-only releases of TuxMath
> 1.8.0 and TuxType 1.8.1 this weekend.
>
> The snag on the Windows side is that TuxMath has added several library
> dependencies, and also now uses libtool, and I wasn't able to get my
> previous cross-build setup to work.  TuxType still builds with the old
> crossbuild setup, except that my box that contained it died and I
> don't have it recreated as of yet.
>
> On the positive side, I looked into the mingw-cross-env project
> (http://mingw-cross-env.nongnu.org) and have been extremely pleased
> with it as a better way to make Windows builds.  The project leader is
> extremely helpful, and even added SDL_Pango and librsvg to
> mingw-cross-env just to get our project to build, as well as
> contributing needed code to our configure.ac.  Basically, it is now
> trivially simple to set up a linux-based cross-build environment. You
> may need to install a couple of packages with your distro's package
> manager, then get mingw-cross-env from their site, put it in a
> convenient place, and type "make".  After a couple of hours of
> downloading and building, the mingw-cross-env directory contains a
> cross-compiler and all the libs needed to cross-compile tuxmath and
> tuxtype for windows.
>
> I added a "buildw32" directory to tuxmath and tuxtype in Git, which
> contains some simple scripts to automate the crossbuild.  The scripts
> assume that the cross-environment is located at
> /usr/local/mingw-cross-env.  For tuxmath, you just cd to buildw32 and
> type "./tmwin.sh".  For tuxtype it is the same except the script is
> called ttwin.sh.  The mingw-cross-env project uses static linking, so
> you wind up with a single large binary and no dll's.
>
> The exciting part is that tuxtype builds correctly and has SDL_Pango
> working, something we have never had in Windows.  The glitch is that
> there is a problem with SDL_mixer that causes the program to exit
> during initialization unless it is started with "tuxtype --nosound".
> We could turn sound off in the source code and issue a silent TuxType
> windows build right now, but that is far from optimal.  I have not
> made much progress with this on the SDL mailing list.  The bug
> apparently only affects the most recent two versions of SDL_mixer, so
> I perhaps could downgrade SDL_mixer to 1.2.8 in the crossbuild
> environment as a workaround.
>
> For tuxmath, the situation is fairly similar but with two additional
> issues - the configure step does not detect SDL_net, and the linking
> phase fails with some errors related to libtool.  We don't really need
> libtool until we start using libt4kcommon, so the latter problem could
> be sidestepped if I can't figure out how to solve it.
>
> So, I'd encourage anyone who is interested to set up mingw-cross-env
> and test these crossbuilds.
>
> Also, Matt, if you still have a functioning "old" crossbuild setup,
> I'd be happy to post a tuxtype release built that way.  If you want to
> do that, you will have to uncomment the lines in nsis/tuxtype.nsi.in
> and Makefile.am that control inclusion of the dll files, which I
> commented out because the new setup doesn't need them.
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
>
>
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