Re: [Mingw-users] Easiest way for users to install Curl for MinGW ?

[Earnie B. <ea...@us...>]

On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 8:59 PM, Thad Guidry wrote:

Please refrain from top posting.
See the Etiquette section of http://mingw.org/lists.shtml.

> No Earnie,
>
> None of those help the problem space effectively enough for the Mozilla Rust
> developer community.
>

Developers not knowing how to build software with a configure script?

> I am trying to ease the burden of our developer community within Mozilla
> Rust that happen to use Windows.  In building Rust, the developer has to
> have a suitable environment.  We have choosen to recommend MinGW / MSYS as
> that tested development environment.  Unfortunately, it seems that the one
> hassle in this is building Curl manually ...like so ...
>

Yes, currently that is the option, unless ...

> download curl-7.30.0.tar.gz from http://curl.haxx.se/download.html
> tar -zxvf curl-7.30.0.tar.gz
> cd curl-7.30.0
> ./configure –prefix=/mingw
> make
> make install
>
> or some "easier" installing method for Curl.  Which I am unaware of.
>

You could maintain a contributed package for distribution either with
our distribution or your own.  It is possible to setup your mingw-get
profile.xml file to point to another distribution source other than
the MinGW project to pick up files.

> Here's our build notes so far for Windows users:
> https://github.com/mozilla/rust/wiki/Note-getting-started-developing-Rust#windows
>

One glaring problem I see is msysGit in "Program\ Files".  Paths with
spaces are an sore PITA that can and should be avoided.  Also, since
your users are using our MSYS the msysGit msys-1.0.dll should be
removed from the file distribution or one could run into environment
clashing.

> Let me know or ideally contribute to step 6 or 7 on that GitHub wiki if
> needed be.  We would love that.
>

We would be willing to house a contributed package with willingness of
the contributor to take ownership of the distribution.

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