[Tux4kids-tuxtype-dev] Tux Typing Windows development

[Brendan Luchen]

I had little trouble getting Git working in Windows 7. IIRC, I used msysgit
with TortoiseGit. This was last summer, and the support was significantly
more mature than it had been a year prior, so it can only have improved by
now.

TuxMath should theoretically be buildable in Windows using CMake, but
because of the complexity added by libt4k_common, this might be more
difficult than just cross-compiling. TuxType doesn't have a CMake build
chain, so while it might be possible to force it to build with autotools
under MinGW, cross-compiling is almost certainly less trouble.

-Brendan

On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 8:35 AM, David Bruce <davidstuartbruce at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Amos,
>
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Amos Batto <amosbatto at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> I also would be interested in learning how to compile TuxType and TuxMath
>> for Windows. For Linux it is easy, but I can't figure it out for Windows. I
>> tried cross compiling in Linux for both platforms as outlined in the readme
>> for older versions of TuxType, but I couldn't get it to work with version
>> 1.8. I will try again this weekend.
>>
>
> Starting with 1.8, the crossbuild is based on using mingw-cross-env (
> http://mingw-cross-env.nongnu.org).  The great thing about mingw-cross-env
> is that the whole crossbuild environment gets set up automatically with a
> makefile-based system.  If you install it at /opt/mingw-cross-env, the
> scripts I've included in the tuxtype git repository should work without
> modification.
>
> Tuxmath is a little harder for the moment because we use our t4k_common
> library, which isn't yet in the default mingw-cross-env collection.  The
> mingw-cross-env maintainer has told me he would be happy to include
> t4k_common once we think it is "ready" enough.
>
> I'd really be interested in any feedback about developers' experiences with
> the mingw-cross-env-based crossbuild, because I want to get it to the point
> where it is extremely simple, automated, and "just works".
>
> David Bruce
>
>
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