[Coco] lwtools on Windows

[Tormod Volden]

On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 8:18 AM, William Astle wrote:
> On 2013-09-14 23:56, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>
>> But your use of what I have, which is now about 3 months old, for lwtools
>> in particular, will need an assembler or compiler that runs on windows.
>> Since M$hit doesn't think the user has any business building his own, I
>> have no clue what choices you have to successfully build it on windows.
>> The 00README.txt file does not mention windows, and a quick inspection of
>> the Makefile indicates its written in more or less pure *nix language.
>>
>> Perhaps MinGW can build it?
>
>
> For the record, the official distribution point for lwtools is
> http://lwtools.projects.l-w.ca/.
>
> lwtools is known to build under mingw and I have reports of it working under
> cygwin. However, I don't officially support Windows so building under mingw
> and cygwin do not get tested regularly. Since I don't have a Windows system
> to build on, I don't provide Windows binaries either. I used to build
> binaries with a cross-compiler (mingw as it happens) but that proved to be a
> lot less stable than one would hope.

Well, you do provide Windows binaries on your site, in the Third Party
Contributions section there is a link to the unofficial binaries that
I build.

>
> If someone wants to apply to be the official "lwtools on windows" guy and
> make sure it builds and/or provide windows binaries, ping me off list and we
> can discuss it.

Meanwhile, my binaries are at least tested on Windows.

Tormod