Building IcedTea-web for Windows

[Jiri Vanek]

On 10/24/18 5:06 PM, Alex Kashchenko wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 10/24/2018 03:54 PM, Jiri Vanek wrote:
>> We build under cygwin.
>>
>> On 10/24/18 4:48 PM, misterTi misterTi wrote:
>>> How to build the launcher for windows?
>>> I tried to use mingw with autogen and configure on windows, but
>>> configure says OS Mingw32 is not supported. The same, when i try to
>>> build for windows on linux, again using mingw compiler.
>>> Please help, thank you.
> 
> Launcher alone can be built with "cargo build" without cygwin.

Current native launchers are for no use:(
in 1.7 there are still bat launchers.  We put togehter all bits in makefile, whch is optimised for
unix and cygwin.

You can use both without any make, just javac netx and sed bat files.  But some parts can be tricky
to do without full makefile.
> 
> To build the whole installer this devkit can be used - https://github.com/akashche/itw_win_devkit.git
> 
>>>
>>> BR, Joze
>>>
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