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MXE

  • The Windows distributable is built using the MXE cross-compiler environment on Linux.

  • Its best to pull from the master branch of my fork of MXE, as this is where I push any packages/changes I need.

  • make MXE_TARGETS=x86_64-w64-mingw32.static MXE_PLUGIN_DIRS=plugins/tcl.tk boost cairo tcl tk json_spirit gsl pango librsvg openssl readline ncurses

  • For Minsky 2.20 or less, MXE_TARGETS=i686-w64-mingw32.static

  • For Minsky 1.x, you will also need:

   make MXE_TARGETS=i686-w64-mingw32.static MXE_PLUGIN_DIRS=plugins/tcl.tk tktable

  • Install necessary prerequisites from your package manager as required by the above line (eg flex, gperf, intltool, scons).

  • Once these are built, if ecolab hasn't been included as a submodule, unpack ecolab, and do

   make MXE=1 install.

 This installs EcoLab to ~/usr/mxe/ecolab
  • Then compile Minsky with
    make MXE=1
  • Once minsky.exe is compiled, copy the entire directory onto a windows system with a posix system like cygwin installed, as well as the WiX msi generator.
  • The run GUI/makeMsi.sh to generate the installer version, which creates an msi file.

Debugging

With MXE, there is very limited debugging facilities. Essentially all that is possible is to add print statements. To build Minsky such that messages to the console are visible, do

make MXE=1 DEBUG=1 OPT="-O3 -NDEBUG"

Note that without the OPT parameter, the compiler core dumps.