Re: Windows installer builds

[Kai Willadsen <kai willadsen gmail com>]

On 28 April 2018 at 02:08, Sanketh <pbsanketh gmail com> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> Thank you for this great tool. Currently version 3.16.2 (August 2016) for
> windows and would want new builds. It’s mentioned in the website that there
> is an opportunity to help here to setup reproducible builds on windows
> platform.
>
> I would be interested to contribute here. I don’t know python programming
> but I have good experience in Devops overall, so I feel it should be
> manageable.
>
> Please let me know how I could get started here if this is still an open
> point.

The current "Update Windows binaries" mailing list thread is a good
starting point. The current challenge is that we're looking to build
under MSYS2 instead of our previous build step, which used packaged
libraries from a third-party project. There's been some work on
getting that to work using Appveyor, but unfortunately I don't think
we have a single place where progress is being recorded.

cheers,
Kai