Re: Building MSI package under MSYS

[Kai Willadsen <kai willadsen gmail com>]

On 24 February 2018 at 06:08, Максим Кисляков <kislaykov maksim ya ru> wrote:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "setup_win32.py", line 12, in <module>
>     site_dir = site.getsitepackages()[1]
> IndexError: list index out of range
<snip>

That line has been there since the initial setup script commit, and...
I'll be honest, I have no recollection of why. If I had to guess, I'd
say that it's something to do with that build being set up for the
default Python install (i.e., the Windows binaries downloaded from
python.org), not the msys-installed python.

> Then i changed that index to 0 and after that i am getting following error
> https://pastebin.com/mpXh0Nz6
> So, the question is How can i build meld installer under MSYS2 or is it
> possible at all?

I'm fairly confident it's *possible*, but I've never managed to
produce a working binary using the plain msys environment. Last time I
tried, I got as far as
https://github.com/meld/meld/blob/appveyor/appveyor.yml before giving
up. There are other required changes on the `appveyor` branch there as
well, and other people may have made more progress in the meantime.

cheers,
Kai