Re: [Tuxmath-devel] Tuxmath Windows build

[Pere P. i C. <per...@gm...>]

El dj 01 de 06 de 2017 a les 08:54 -0400, en/na LM va escriure:
> I have a working build of Tuxmath for Windows.  It contains all the
> latest patches I've been working on including several fixes for memory
> issues and bugs.  It's portable, so you could put it on a flash drive
> and use it on any Windows system (no registry or install software
> needed). 

Any chance that goes into the tux4kids repos in github and/or alioth?


>  Would it be useful to make the executable available for
> people who can't build the application from source?

Yes, please :) Unfortunately, not everybody runs opensource OSs


> 
> The biggest issue I see in doing something like this would be to make
> sure that all source used to build it (including supporting libraries
> with GPL or LGPL licenses) was available along with the executable.  I
> just rebuilt Tuxmath from source yesterday and I cut out a few
> dependencies, but I still needed 33 dlls to get Tuxmath to run.  Some
> of the dlls are compiler libraries for GNU gcc/g++.  I've heard some
> developers say you don't need to include compiler source code when
> distributing Open Source, but others say that only applies when the
> compiler is distributed with the operating system.  That's not the
> case for a Windows system.  Making compiler and dependent library
> source code available means sharing quite a lot of source code.  If
> it's GNU GPLv3 licensed, I believe the source code has to be available
> along with the executable (accessible from the same location).
> 
> So, is there interest in making a Tuxmath executable that works on
> Windows available for general use?  If so, what would be a good plan
> for distribution that honors the various licenses of all the software
> libraries needed to build it?

I just took a look at http://tux4kids.alioth.debian.org/tuxmath/download.php
>From there, I deduce that one only has to provide the GPL source code 
AKA tuxmath and t4k-commons sources, at least this is what has been done
up to present.

Please, correct me if I am wrong

Thanks
Pere





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