README.w32

Building PCB for Windows with a MinGW cross-compiler

1) Install a MinGW cross-compiler.
On Debian and derivatives, you can type 'sudo apt-get install mingw32.'.
You can also build your own by using the build script provided by the
MinGW project.

On NetBSD use the cross/mingw package.

2) Install native (non-cross) dependencies.

* autoconf
* automake
* libtool, gettext, intltool.
* glib and gtk+.
* wget (used for fetching tarballs)
* wine (the tiff build fails without it)

3) Edit the w32/minipack.conf file to suit your compiler setup.
   FIXME -- can we make this take arguments?

4) Copy the pcb tarball to w32/sources

5) Enter the w32 directory and run ./build_all.

6) Wait while the script fetches and compiles the PCB dependencies and PCB itself.

7) Run the result with wine: wine result/bin/pcb.exe
   [NOTE:  This didn't work for me but copying everything to an actual windows machine worked]

8) Copy the result directory to a Windows installation (packaging script is not supplied).