[mythtv] [RFC] New Win32 build script

[Lawrence Rust]

On Wed, 2010-12-22 at 12:38 +0000, lothar.subscribe at comcast.net wrote:
> 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).

Apologies for the delay in replying - been away over the holidays.

All my Windows systems are 32-bit.  I presume that you are running a
64-bit version?  This would account for the difference.  I'll add a
check for this in the script.

> 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

Well spotted.  A cut and paste error from instructions for the previous
script.

> 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.

-- Lawrence