[mythtv] [RFC] New Win32 build script

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>Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 15:53:12 +0100 
>From: Lawrence Rust < lvr at softsystem.co.uk > 
>Subject: [mythtv] [RFC] New Win32 build script 
>To: mythtv-dev at mythtv.org 
>Message-ID: <1291906392.1844.59.camel at gagarin> 
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>Since the change from svn to git, the existing Windows build script is 
>broken. In this light and the fact that the mythfrontend produced by 
>the current Perl script suffers from Qt compatibility issues with 
>MythMusic then I decided to re-write it to support both native and 
>hosted (cross compiled) builds. The result can be viewed here.. 
> http://www.softsystem.co.uk/download/mythtv/mythbuildw32 

>There is an archive containing the script and its associated patches 
>here: 
> http://www.softsystem.co.uk/download/mythtv/mythbuildw32.zip 

>The patches are in mythpatches and are organised in sub-directories, one 
>per project. The mythplugins folder contains my previously announced 
>patch for mythmusic to use libcdio to play & rip CD's. This patch is 
>optional and can be deleted if desired. 

>I would be most pleased if anyone can try this and let me know your 
>experiences. If all goes well I'll submit it to Trac. 

>Comments please... 

>Cross compile on Linux 
>---------------------- 
>- unzip -q -d mythbuildw32 mythbuildw32.zip 
>- cd mythbuildw32 
>- source ./mythbuildw32 

>Now wait... By default, the script will checkout fixes/0.24 but this 
>can be changed by setting BRANCH=[tag] before e.g. 
>BRANCH=master source ./mythbuildw32 

>The script creates a Windows installation in ./mythbuild/win32 and a zip 
>installation archive in ./mythbuild/mythtv-w32.zip 

>To run mythfrontend use wine e.g: 
>export MYTHCONFDIR="H:/mythconf-wine" 
>wine mythbuild/win32/mythfrontend.exe -w -geometry 1280x720 

>Build on Windows 
>---------------- 
>You'll need 2GB VM (physical preferably) and about 10GB disk. 

>- Install the MinGW/Msys environment available here: 
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/ 
>- Click: "Automated MinGW Installer" / "mingw-get-inst" ... 
>- Download and run the installer. When prompted select: 
>C++ 
>MSYS basic system 
>MinGW Developer Toolkit 

>- Copy mythbuildw32.zip to the Msys home folder e.g. 
> C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\home\[username] 
>- Right click the archive and select "Extract All..." 
>- Start an Msys shell: Start/All Programs/MinGW/MinGW Shell 
>- cd mythbuildw32 
>- ./mythbuildw32 

>The script creates a Windows installation in ./mythbuild/win32 and a zip 
>installation archive in ./mythbuild/mythtv-w32.zip 

>To run mythfrontend execute: 
>. /mythbuild/win32/mythfrontend 

>-- Lawrence Rust 

First I wanted to say nice work with the Windows build script! I just built this under Windows 7 64-bit natively and everything I've tried so far (recording playback) works great. There were two things that I wanted to note though: 

1) The Git tool installed to C:\Program Files (x86)\Git but the script was hard coded to look at C:\Program Files\Git. A quick update to the script fixed it (I don't know how to generate patches). 

2) The mythfrontend application was found under C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\home\<user>\mythbuildw32\mythinstall\win32 not C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\home\<user>\mythbuild\win32\mythfrontend 

Build time was overnight (I think 16+ hours) on my Intel C2D T5800 @ 2GHz laptop. I haven't tested it extensively yet but so far so good! Keep up the great work. 

Kind regards, 
Tim 
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