[mythtv] Ticket #4270: MythTV on Windows (with MinGW)

[Simon Kenyon]

On Thu, 2007-12-27 at 09:45 +1100, Nigel Pearson wrote:
> > i feel like i'm playing snakes and ladders. i almost get to the top  
> > and
> > then i hit a snake and end up back at the bottom.
> 
> 
> It was a bit like that when Jeremiah and I
> were doing the initial Mac OS X builds.
> 
> In the end it was best to have a shell script
> that downloaded and built all the dependencies,
> and then did the MythTV build. That way, all the
> people trying to do test builds had the same
> components installed in the same place and
> in the same order.
> 
> 
> Maybe something similar (a .bat file?)
> could be hacked together for MinGW builds?

i will gladly do that
once i can get qt built with mysql support and then at least have a go
at myth
right now i cannot as i've had to restart the process at least 3 times
so far
and it takes about a day (on my hardware) each time.
--
simon