My understanding was that it is not possible to directly compile under
windows. I had success in the past with Mingw so did not try the MSYS2
approach(and the slightly out of date scares me a lot).
Did not know of the VS possibility...I'm quite a bit out of date myself.
I'm git-impaired but if I don't go wrong this is a branch not actually
merged in the master branch, so I would not like to chose this route.

On 3/1/2022 9:18 AM, maurizio butti wrote:

I build with MSYS2.  Indeed, the instructions may be slightly out of
date, but only slightly.

On 01.03.22 21:24, Jordan Brown wrote:

Well, if nobody helping with updating the docs, it will go out of
date even more. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

ciao,
Torsten.

On 3/1/2022 12:24 PM, Jordan Brown wrote:

Oh, eww, it's more out of date than I thought.

Two things that I see offhand:

• I don't think it lists all of the dependencies.  Once you follow
  those instructions, it would be best to run
  scripts/msys2-install-dependencies.sh to get all of them.  (It might
  be that you only need that to run the tests, but if you're going to
  do development you should be able to run the tests.)
• It still talks about qmake, and qmake is dead.  The replacement is
  cmake.  I use two scripts, attached, to create a build directory and
  to actually do the build.  I say "osc.cmk b" and "osc.mk b" to build
  in directory b.

On 3/1/2022 12:33 PM, Torsten Paul wrote:

Yep.  I'll see if I can pry loose some time to wipe my msys2
installation and rebuild it, noting the steps required.

Our releases on openscad.org download page still come from MXE
cross-compilation.
BUT, for what it's worth, one of the github CI servers regularly builds and
tests via MSYS2.

I haven't looked at the instructions recently but you can reference the
setup for that CI server if need be:
https://github.com/openscad/openscad/blob/master/.github/workflows/windows.yml

Hans

On Tue, Mar 1, 2022 at 2:42 PM Jordan Brown openscad@jordan.maileater.net
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