[Gretl-devel] Building gretl on Windows

It has taken me a while to write this up, but there are now instructions and relevant support files for building gretl from the git source on MS Windows (using MSYS2 and Mingw64) -- see http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/pub/gretl/winbuild/ , in particular gretl-winbuild.pdf. I made available some "build on Windows" information several years ago, but it was all very ad hoc and quite quickly subject to bit-rot. Hopefully this time will be different since the Windows build uses the same "autotools" approach as the Linux build, and I'm now using that same approach when cross-building the gretl package for Windows. So things should stay up to date. In the current iteration of the doc I haven't attempted to describe how to create a redistributable gretl package on Windows, but that's now quite feasible and I plan to document it before too long. In the meantime I describe making an "own use" build of gretl. Allin