Re: [hackers] MSYS2/Mingw primer

[Harlan Stenn <stenn@xxxxxxx>]

Martin,

This is great, thanks!

On 3/16/2023 8:40 AM, Martin Burnicki wrote:
> Just for the case that you want to give MSYS2/Mingw a try: I've put some 
> information together how to get started:
> https://wiki.burnicki.net/miscellaneous_tips:20_software_development:msys2_mingw_notes
>
> I've also just recently started to use it, and I'm very happy for what 
> I've seen so far. You can easily use things like git and ssh from within 
> the bash shells provided by the build environment.
>
> A tiny example project that looks like a standard project for Linux and 
> other Unix-like systems can be found here:
> https://github.com/mburnicki/hello-mingw
>
> If it would be possible to build NTP for Windows using this toolchain, 
> we could probably avoid a lot of the hassle we have due to supporting 
> different VS versions with their various project files.
>
> I'm assuming that it would even be possible to integrate Windows support 
> into NTP's autoconf/automake stuff and let it detect the Windows target 
> system, but as mentioned earlier, I'm not familiar with that auto stuff, 
> so I'm not sure whether this makes sense, or whether to just create a 
> set of makefiles once for each of the NTP programs.

I specifically did the auto* stuff to allow this.

The build script calls sntp/scripts/cvo.sh, and that script might need a 
tweak to make it report something useful.

> On the other hand, unlike Unix-like systems, Windows is a well-known 
> target, so it may be possible to just set up a couple of static 
> makefiles which don't have to be created by autoconf/automake.

Whatever y'all want, and the point of running configure is to create and 
expand some config.h files and some Makefiles.  I suspect it will be 
easier to use that framework than create something new.

> Martin

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