[mythtv-users] Windows Mythfrontend binary

[Anthony Giggins]

On 6 December 2016 at 06:31, Mark Perkins <perkins1724 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> On 5 December 2016 3:58:51 PM Anthony Giggins <seven at seven.dorksville.net>
> wrote:
>
> > On 5 December 2016 at 14:24, Peter Bennett <cats22 at comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> >> On 12/04/2016 06:07 PM, Anthony Giggins wrote:
> >>
> >> I haven't had much luck importing mythtv code into Visual Studio 2015
> >> Community Edition, I think it may be a Visual Studio 2010 project? which
> >> 2015 should be able to import and upgrade but I haven't had any luck,
> >> (although I'm not a programmer) I've reverted to attempting to cross
> >> compile on Linux for windows but Haven't had a chance to build since
> >> downloading the pre-requisites.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> Anthony
> >>
> >> There is some info here. I think it may be up to date:
> >>
> >> http://softsystem.co.uk/mythtv/index.htm
> >>
> >>
> >> Appears not, from http://softsystem.co.uk/mythtv/build-linux.htm
> >
> > NB the script and patches were designed to build MythTV 0.24, released on
> > 11 Nov 2010, but will also build MythTV 0.23.1 and the current git master
> > (v0.25pre-1070-g9590973).
> >
> > It very much looks like the build script thats in git
> >
> > https://github.com/MythTV/packaging/tree/master/Win32
> >
> > I've tried this but it does not compile successfully, I'm still looking
> to
> > see if a can get this compiled using a similar method but haven't had
> much
> > time to sink into this recently.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Anthony
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> I'm not really sure but even though some of the parts and references are
> out of date by some 6 or so years, some of it has been updated somewhat
> recently -  the rPi stuff is modern.  And when I download it populates a
> directory full of 0.28 patches. What that means for a windows build I don't
> know but am having a try.
>
> Anthony what's your approach to this going to be (in the interests of
> minimising duplicated effort)? At the moment I am updating the download
> links and versions in the build script,  running it then trying to fix the
> errors one at a time.  I get the feeling it could be a slow process.
>
>
>
> Like I said, I've tried the build script from git, I'll be next looking to
use mingw32/64 to cross compile on Linux, but I haven't progressed on this
except to install the pre-requisites in the ubuntu bash on windows 10 where
I plan to do the cross compiling, I had originally attempted to run
mythfrontend here but it doesn't run unfortunately :(

Anthony
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