Re: Enigma 1.30-beta on macOS Big Sur ready for testing

[Sidney Markowitz]

Andreas Lochmann wrote on 20/08/21 11:15 pm:
> Yes, please merge.

Ok, I'll merge macbuild branch

Oh, one question about the dmg files I make.
Should I run enigma --makepreview before packaging the install dmg?

> Feel free to remove intl
> completely or in parts, otherwise I will remove it later on, when
> cleaning up the code (after release of 1.30, before I start working on
> 1.31).

The branch I will merge will remove just the intl/VERSION file, which is 
the minimum change to allow it to build, and I'll leave it to you to 
remove intl more thoroughly later.

> >    configure --with-system-enet --prefix=somethingconvenient
> >    make
> >    make install
> >
> > This links quite a bit more statically and requires fewer DLLs in the
> > distribution, so I really am quite mystified about how the zip that was
> > uploaded was built.
>
> Feel free to merge these changes, too.
>
> I built the zip, using the scripts etc/mxe-configure.sh and etc/mxe-dist.sh:
>
>     ./autogen.sh
>     cd etc
>     ./mxe-configure.sh
>     ..
>     make
>     [copy preview images]
>     cd etc
>     ./mxe-dist.sh
>
> mxe-configure and mxe-dist are updated copies of mingw32-configure and
> mingw32-dist, matching my own cross-compilation environment (the name
> derives from mxe.cc, where I found most of the necessary packages). I
> didn't want to interfere with anyone still using mingw32-configure and
> -dist (after all, I didn't know if anyone was actually still
> successfully using them, and they use different installation paths for
> the libraries).

I'll try that out before I actually do the merge to confirm that I'm not 
about to break that method of building.

> Well ... question to all: Does anyone still use mingw32-configure/dist?

Well, I do see that current linux distros now package mingw-w64 and no 
longer have mingw32, so that's probably obsolete.

> The fact that my build needs more dlls was quite a hassle, that's true,

It turns out I was wrong about the resulting of the build in msys2. 
After running strip and upx on enigma.exe it is similar size to what you 
get. And a similar set of dll files is required to run it in a plain 
Windows environment.

> By the way ... Sidney, I wrote you mails on March 23rd and May 29th
> about my switch back from cmake to autotools and a pull request on
> Github from someone third. I thought you were just busy, but maybe they
> went to your spam folder?

I see them in my mail, and they are marked as read. Sorry, I must have 
been distracted when reading them, and didn't notice that you made the 
switch. I did end up noticing that pull request anyway and incorporated 
it into the changes I made for the mac build.

 Sidney