Re: GUB buiding from a local source tree?

[Graham Percival]

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Boris Shingarov <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Umm.  It would be *way*, ***way*** easier to download lilybuntu and do
>> a normal compile in there
>
> Then I probably had misunderstood the purpose of Lilybuntu -- I thought this
> was for people who did not have a real linux setup for doing lilypond
> development -- like, having all the prerequisites in place etc.  For
> *development*, I am completely fine and happy.  It's that I am now happy
> with the development results and need to deploy, and the ultimate users do
> not use linux.  How does lilybuntu produce the win32 binary anyway?
>  wouldn't it need to do the exact same crosscompile as what would happen in
> a physical ubuntu box?

I see.

Well, if you are determined to build executables for win32, then GUB
is the only way.  I welcome more help with it, but my warnings still
stand.  My initial guess is that it will take 10 hours to build a
win32 installer (called "mingw" in gub) using the standard method.  To
build from your own git tree, I estimate another 5 hours after the
"standard" installer is working.

The next step is to try "make lilypond" and see if/when it breaks.

Good luck!
- Graham