Plan for tomorrows (20080910) FESCO meeting

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 11:02:42PM +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Debian, on the other hand, has had success with building much of
> NSIS with a MinGW cross-compiler. You can take a look at their
> package. The README.Debian in the current Debian experimental
> package says only the System plugin still doesn't build (due to
> inline assembly, and there are attempts to fix that). You may need a
> fairly old MinGW GCC to get it to build without heavy patching
> though, at least last I checked NSIS used stuff like lvalue casts in
> their code, as M$VC doesn't complain about those. Debian also had a
> patch to support 64-bit builds (real ones, not -m32 as upstream NSIS
> used), which I used in my package too, but this appears to be
> finally fixed upstream in 2.39.

Thanks - I wasn't aware that Debian packaged NSIS, but I will
definitely take a look at this & at your stuff.

Rich.

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