Wine now supports cross-compiling
by Michael Cronenworth
For those not aware (as I was not aware...),
Wine 4.8 (May 10, 2019) introduced support to compile some (not all!) Wine DLL and
EXE files as Windows PE files instead of ELF files. This has a few pros and cons.
Pros:
- Matches what Wine is supporting anyway. Loading of PE files.
- Uses Mingw-w64 in a larger project. Could boost both projects.
Cons:
- Debug data is stripped out and dropped on the floor.
- Fedora doesn't have any packages with multiple binary formats that I know of. Is
this a problem?
Luckily this support is optional at this time, but I've already seen a Bugzilla
troll point users of distros that are not using this feature back to the distro for
support.
What do we want to do here?
Thanks,
Michael
4 years, 11 months
Potential packages to add
by Richard Shaw
I maintain a few packages in my COPR[1] that I need for a project I'm a
developer on and I actually produce the Windows installer on my Fedora
machine using CMake/NSIS.
Thought I would ask if there's interest in doing reviews to get these in
Fedora proper:
portaudio
sndfile
speexdsp
libsamplerate
wxWindows
Probably not a lot of general interest but "hamlib" as well, but that's
specific to ham radio operators.
Thanks,
Richard
[1] https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/hobbes1069/mingw/builds/
5 years
