Re: [Gretl-devel] Building gretl on WSL (Windows subsystem for Linux)
On Sun, 11 Nov 2018, Sven Schreiber wrote:
Am 11.11.18 um 17:32 schrieb Allin Cottrell:
> On Sun, 11 Nov 2018, Sven Schreiber wrote:
>
>>
>> I'm not 100% sure, but I'm not aware that it is possible to install an
>> entire distro like Debian within Win 7, and then use tools like
"apt-get"
>> to download more standard packages from that distro. I believe the breadth
>> of the support used to be much less than it is in WSL in Win10.
>
> All quite interesting. But I'm not sure why one would want to build/run a
> Linux version of gretl on Windows when you can build and run a native
> Windows version.
Indeed, the idea was not to build a Linux version in the end. I believe that
you, Allin, used to cross-compile the Windows builds on Linux. And I
conjectured that this cross-compilation setup might be easier to organize and
configure than the Msys-setup. But this assumption could be totally wrong.
Ah, I see. The gretl for Windows packages are still cross-built on
Linux (I run Windows only when absolutely necessary to test things). I
suppose that cross-compiling for Windows under Linux on Windows (heh!)
ought to work, though it seems kinda convoluted.
Allin