RE: [opensuse-factory] Heads up regarding WSL and Windows for ARM cross compilation effort.

-----Original Message----- From: İsmail Dönmez Sent: 10 September 2020 08:49 To: Guillaume Gardet Cc: Jan Engelhardt ; Lubos Kocman ; opensuse-factory@opensuse.org Subject: Re: [opensuse-factory] Heads up regarding WSL and Windows for ARM cross compilation effort.

Hi,

On 10 Sep 06:45 2020, Guillaume Gardet wrote:

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-----Original Message----- From: İsmail Dönmez Sent: 10 September 2020 08:36 To: Guillaume Gardet Cc: Jan Engelhardt ; Lubos Kocman ; opensuse-factory@opensuse.org Subject: Re: [opensuse-factory] Heads up regarding WSL and Windows for ARM cross compilation effort.

Hi,

On 10 Sep 06:17 2020, Guillaume Gardet wrote:

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Do you really expect people to build for x86_64 windows on PowperPC or Arm machines?

I really think it is ok to build for aarch64 windows on aarch64 and for x86_64 windows on x86_64. We build openSUSE for aarch64 on aarch64 and openSUSE for x86_64 on x86_64 after all. I do not see any added value at all to keep the ability to build x86_64 windows on non x86 archs.

This is called cross-compilation and it's a very valuable thing. I don't understand the reasoning behind to remove such a functionality.

The problem is the prefix of packages: 'mingw64-' applies for windows 64-bit

and covers both x86_64 and aarch64.

Is there a bug report or a document explaining the problem in detail so we can try to fix it properly?

It has been part of https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1162960 Cheers, Guillaume

Regards, ismail

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