[Vm-dev] instructions for building on Windows

[Nicolas Cellier]

Hi Peter,
pkgconfig is built by mvm script among the 3rd party dependencies (it's the
1st one).
- though I'm not sure it's necessary now that we use cygwin, it was
necessary on mingw minimalism oblige -

-- CC=i686-w64-mingw32-gcc option is not needed because it is already part
of ../common/Make* rules

Appveyor builds are green... But note that appveyor builds are statefull
(they have a cache and not entirely built from scratch!), so a regression
might get unnoticed. See those lines in
https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/blob/Cog/.appveyor.yml

cache:
- .thirdparty-cache

Do you try building from a cygwin32 or cygwin64?

I'm trying now in a win7 VM (that should not make too much a difference
from cygwin POV)...
But it will take hours to complete from scratch (justifying the cache)...


2017-04-05 23:17 GMT+02:00 Peter Uhnak <i.uhnak at gmail.com>:

>
> Hi all,
>
> does anyone know the instructions for building vm (pharo.cog.spur) on
> Windows (10) from scratch?
>
> I followed the appveyor of both https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm
> and https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm ,
>
> for Pharo I also needed cygwin packages wget, and unzip
> for both I also needed cygwin packages libintl8, and mingw64-i686-glib2.0
>
> however now I am stuck on building cairo; I've tried installing both
> libcairo-devel and libcairo2, but to no effect.
>
> it fails on the following:
>
> configure: error: pkg-config >=  required but not found (
> http://pkgconfig.freedesktop.org/)
> make: *** [../third-party/Makefile.cairo:32: /cygdrive/d/prog/windows-
> pharo-vm/opensmalltalk-vm/.thirdparty-cache/windows/i386/bin/libcairo-2.dll]
> Error 1
>
> I am compiling it with ./mvm -f -- CC=i686-w64-mingw32-gcc
>
> Thanks!
> Peter
>
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