packaging-committee

#111 Precompiled windows programs exception
Closed: Invalid Opened by toshio.

Closed: Invalid
Reopen Issue

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Windows_loaders_packaging_draft

Summary -- due to the way Windows loads dynamic libraries and the lack of a C RunTime (CRT) library in MinGW, we cannot recompile Windows applications so that they run reliably unless we control all of the libraries that the application would link to. We may want to grant an exception for pre-compiled binaries in this case.

This would be an additional exception under:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#No_inclusion_of_pre-built_binaries_or_libraries

Prebuilt windows binaries are not permittted in Fedora. Windows binaries may only be included if they are built from source via koji. (+1:8, 0:1, -1:0)

Log of IRC conversation regarding using mingw to cross compile these types of files
mingw.log

The Log I just attached is the full conversation that I summarized very briefly for the meeting today. People who are actually going to need to cross-compile things under this guideline may need to reference that.

Bugs filed. These bugs look like the file can just be deleted:

jbrout: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=749425
python-4Suite-XML: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=749427

These will need cross-compilation:
pypy: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=749429
python3: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=749393
python: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=749392
syslinux: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=749428

I'm closing this ticket out.

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