On Thu, 2 Sept 2021 at 12:42, Zebediah Figura <zfigura@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello all, > > I'm a contributor to the Wine project. To summarize the following mail, > Wine needs special versions of some of its normal dependencies, such as > libfreetype and libgnutls, built using the MinGW cross-compiler, and I'm > sending out a mail to major distributions in order to get some feedback > from our packagers on how these should be built and packaged. > > For a long time Wine has built all of its Win32 libraries (DLLs and > EXEs) as ELF binaries. For various reasons related to application > compatibility, we have started building our binaries as PE instead, > using the MinGW cross-compiler. It is our intent to expand this to some > of our dependencies as well. The list of dependencies that we intend to > build using MinGW is not quite fixed yet, but we expect it to include > and be mostly limited to the following: > At that point, would it make more sense to make Wine a Flatpak or Snap? This is a really complex setup and could break in most build systems for any of the operating systems in different ways. Since you are needing to control all the sources in your own bucket, it would be better if you ran the whole kit and kaboodle. -- Stephen J Smoogen. I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Flame wars in sci.astro.orion. I have seen SPAM filters overload because of Godwin's Law. All those moments will be lost in time... like posts on a BBS... time to shutdown -h now. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
