Re: [Tuxmath-devel] Tuxmath on windows. Incomplete build with Mingw

[David B. <db...@ta...>]

Dear Yves,

On Thursday 28 September 2006 18:21, Yves Combe wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I succeeded building tuxmath on windows, cross compiled with mingw32 (in
> my edubuntu box).

A very timely message - I have some free time this afternoon and wanted to 
work on getting tuxmath working on Windows.

> But it crashes on start, because of file/directory operatons.
> Deactivating all file operations (options reading/writing) give a
> running tuxmath for me.

I was planning to try to build from the source before the config file stuff 
was add (revision 9 or 10), then work forward and see what causes problems 
for Windows.

>
> http://www.ycombe.net/tuxmath/
> The zipped file is the running build. the tar.gz is the modified source
> (autoconfiscated and file operations deactivated). the two sh files are
> the scripts i use to compile.
>
> If you want to cross compile it yourself:
> 1) install mingw32 on linux (apt-get install mingw32 for me).

And for me too!

> 2) install precompiled  dev files (lib and includes) for SDL, SDL-image
> and SDL-mixer in the $target directory  (look into the cross-configure.sh).
> 3) install libgw32c (the dev file):
> http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/libgw32c.htm in the same
> directory. 4) cross-configure.sh with --with-sdl-prefix option
> 5) cross-make.sh
>
> (Configure.in and Makefile.am set windows build to use ./data for data
> path.)

Thanks - I am looking forward to investigating this later today!

My daughter attends school in the ninth largest public school system in the 
US, and some of the folks at her school are quite interested in Tuxmath, but 
for all practical purposes it needs to run on Windows.  I would love to 
switch the school system to Linux, but that is not a very realistic initial 
goal.  Maybe, however, Tuxmath will be the "foot in the door" that gets the 
process started!
-- 
David Bruce