Re: ATTN: AbiWord 2.7.0 Released!

Robert Staudinger wrote:
> On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Jordi Mas <jmas@softcatala.org> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> Are there instructions on how to compile it on win32? Specially, where to
>> get all the dependencies needed and which versions.
>>
>> It would be even good to have a zip file with all the mingw already setup to
>> compile Abiword on win32 that people can download from our site.
>
> We are working on a tried-and-true win32 build, definitely on the
> plate for 2.8 (possibly even both, mingw and visual studio support).
>
> Preliminary instructions can be found at [1], don't let yourself be
> scared by "crosscompiling" in the title, the regular win32 build works
> pretty much the same, but who am I telling.
>
> [1] http://www.abisource.com/wiki/Crossbuilding_AbiWord_for_Win32
>
> - Rob
>

and FWIW a starting point at a mingw environment is at
abisource.com/~rp/builds/ - dig around a bit and I put something like
build-env in there that is basically just my msys and mingw directories
zipped up as used to build 2.6.x - can save you at least some effort.

Ryan

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