It would be great to have the new sources available for download!<br>Thank you for your work!<br><br>Regards,<br><br> Marcos<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/3/5 David Bruce <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:davidstuartbruce@gmail.com">davidstuartbruce@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi everyone,<br>
<br>
I've been promising that I would post new releases soon, so I thought<br>
I should let anyone who is interested about the current holdup.<br>
Mainly, I don't yet have suitable Windows builds, and historically<br>
I've always done simultaneous releases of a tarball (for the Linux and<br>
ultimately OSX folks) and a Windows binary so that the code would be<br>
identical for the same version number.<br>
<br>
If no one objects, I'll just make source-only releases of TuxMath<br>
1.8.0 and TuxType 1.8.1 this weekend.<br>
<br>
The snag on the Windows side is that TuxMath has added several library<br>
dependencies, and also now uses libtool, and I wasn't able to get my<br>
previous cross-build setup to work. TuxType still builds with the old<br>
crossbuild setup, except that my box that contained it died and I<br>
don't have it recreated as of yet.<br>
<br>
On the positive side, I looked into the mingw-cross-env project<br>
(<a href="http://mingw-cross-env.nongnu.org" target="_blank">http://mingw-cross-env.nongnu.org</a>) and have been extremely pleased<br>
with it as a better way to make Windows builds. The project leader is<br>
extremely helpful, and even added SDL_Pango and librsvg to<br>
mingw-cross-env just to get our project to build, as well as<br>
contributing needed code to our <a href="http://configure.ac" target="_blank">configure.ac</a>. Basically, it is now<br>
trivially simple to set up a linux-based cross-build environment. You<br>
may need to install a couple of packages with your distro's package<br>
manager, then get mingw-cross-env from their site, put it in a<br>
convenient place, and type "make". After a couple of hours of<br>
downloading and building, the mingw-cross-env directory contains a<br>
cross-compiler and all the libs needed to cross-compile tuxmath and<br>
tuxtype for windows.<br>
<br>
I added a "buildw32" directory to tuxmath and tuxtype in Git, which<br>
contains some simple scripts to automate the crossbuild. The scripts<br>
assume that the cross-environment is located at<br>
/usr/local/mingw-cross-env. For tuxmath, you just cd to buildw32 and<br>
type "./tmwin.sh". For tuxtype it is the same except the script is<br>
called ttwin.sh. The mingw-cross-env project uses static linking, so<br>
you wind up with a single large binary and no dll's.<br>
<br>
The exciting part is that tuxtype builds correctly and has SDL_Pango<br>
working, something we have never had in Windows. The glitch is that<br>
there is a problem with SDL_mixer that causes the program to exit<br>
during initialization unless it is started with "tuxtype --nosound".<br>
We could turn sound off in the source code and issue a silent TuxType<br>
windows build right now, but that is far from optimal. I have not<br>
made much progress with this on the SDL mailing list. The bug<br>
apparently only affects the most recent two versions of SDL_mixer, so<br>
I perhaps could downgrade SDL_mixer to 1.2.8 in the crossbuild<br>
environment as a workaround.<br>
<br>
For tuxmath, the situation is fairly similar but with two additional<br>
issues - the configure step does not detect SDL_net, and the linking<br>
phase fails with some errors related to libtool. We don't really need<br>
libtool until we start using libt4kcommon, so the latter problem could<br>
be sidestepped if I can't figure out how to solve it.<br>
<br>
So, I'd encourage anyone who is interested to set up mingw-cross-env<br>
and test these crossbuilds.<br>
<br>
Also, Matt, if you still have a functioning "old" crossbuild setup,<br>
I'd be happy to post a tuxtype release built that way. If you want to<br>
do that, you will have to uncomment the lines in nsis/<a href="http://tuxtype.nsi.in" target="_blank">tuxtype.nsi.in</a><br>
and Makefile.am that control inclusion of the dll files, which I<br>
commented out because the new setup doesn't need them.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
<br>
David<br>
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