Thursday, April 09, 2020

abandoning Windows 7 builds

Yesterday, I thought I would try Windows builds for OCVWarp, GL_warp2mp4, etc using MinGW and the procedure outlined in https://wiki.mudlet.org/w/Compiling_Mudlet#Compiling_on_Windows_7.2B

But it turns out, quite a few GB are required on C: drive, especially QT, and everything installs there by default. The machine I'm currently working on has only 4 GB free in C: drive. Tried doing a manual install to H:, too painful. So, it would be easier for those running old Windows versions to boot to a live cd or live USB of Ubuntu or Mint or something, and use the AppImage instead!

I might do appveyor builds and test on some Windows 10 VM, if that works without too much trouble. Possibly a good example for appveyor yml file is here. And more about the MinGW build ecosystem here.

Edit: The OCVWarp build on Windows with MinGW is detailed at
https://hnsws.blogspot.com/2020/04/building-ocvwarp-with-mingw.html

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