Re: Using msys2 for mxe-octave

[John W. Eaton]

On 08/13/2018 04:59 PM, JohnD wrote:

> Currently, it does not attempt to build from source

OK.

> I am not sure if it can without some Cygwin stuff, but would be something to 
> look at.

Yeah, I couldn't see an easy way to make that happen for msys either, 
which is why it was never done.

> It also currently doesn’t grab the sources, which is really just a matter of 
> adding additional source rules like was done for msys.
> Does it have to package the sources ?
> They are available from 
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/msys2/files/REPOS/MSYS2/Sources/

We don't have to include them in the binaries that we distribute, but I 
need an easy way to download them so I can distribute them alongside the 
binaries.

jwe