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[chaz/yoink] / README

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@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ II.  Developers
   b)   Porting
 III. Packagers
   a)   The build system
   b)   Porting
 III. Packagers
   a)   The build system

-  b)   Help requested
+  b)   Targeting Win32

 
 
 I. Users
 
 
 I. Users


@@ -95,10 +95,17 @@ autoconf and automake.  It should be fairly sane.  If you find any
 problems, especially any bugs which complicate packaging on certain
 systems, please send back patches.
 
 problems, especially any bugs which complicate packaging on certain
 systems, please send back patches.
 

-b) Help requested
+b) Targeting Win32

 
 

-If you can create packages for your favorite platform, please send them
-back to me and/or place the package in a public repository appropriate for
-your distribution or platform.  I would especially appreciate packages in
-common formats such as deb, rpm, or OS X app bundles.
+If you have a working mingw32 toolchain with all the dependencies, you can
+build a win32 binary using a command such as this:
+
+./configure --host=mingw32 --prefix=/usr/mingw32/usr
+
+where mingw32 is the correct name of your toolchain.  You can get all the
+non-standard dependencies from the git repository at win32/win32-libs.zip.
+Just unzip the contents of that archive into your toolchain.  If everything
+goes smoothly, you should have a yoink.exe appropriate for the win32
+platform.  You can then build a complete installer using "make package" if
+you have nsis installed.