[mythtv] Windows port

[Robert LeBlanc]

Hmmm... If that's the case, what's the big deal for porting it to Windows? I'd sure like to have an exe installer or even better an msi to be used without cygwin. I'm not very familiar with porting code in this manner, so please help me understand.

Robert LeBlanc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org]
> On Behalf Of Petr Stehlik
> Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 1:11 PM
> To: Development of mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv] Windows port
> 
> Robert LeBlanc píše v Čt 05. 10. 2006 v 12:59 -0600:
> > I do have to agree that cygwin would work for us, but some users don't
> > have anything to do with Linux and would love to use myth on their
> > Windows computer (my roommate is a great example). So having a native
> > Windows binary would defiantly be worthwhile endeavor. For now a cygwin
> > environment would be fine for us, but I think big picture should be
> > native Windows bins. I think it would help boost the popularly of MythTV
> > as well.
> 
> Even application built with cygwin is still a native Window bin
> (compiled natively on Windows with a native compiler - no cross compiler
> involved). There would be a native mythfrontend.exe and a couple of
> libraries next to it (like e.g. cygwin1.dll). Who cares about dlls?
> Every Win app has tons of them... Users wouldn't even know that the
> application originated on Linux. They'll simply click on a menu item or
> desktop icon and that's it. Mythfrontend would run and they'd be happy.
> 
> Petr
> 
> 
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