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[Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks.  Will get back to you.
In tennis tourney today.
 On Oct 5, 2013 9:20 AM, "Brian Sidebotham" <brian.sidebotham@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi Guys,
>
> Attached is the current patch I can commit to enable Github plugin support
> for MinGW.
>
> It enables OpenSSL, which can be pointed to by setting the
> OPENSSL_ROOT_DIR when configuring with CMake. I've not done any work on
> getting OpenSSL to compile under windows as it cross-compiles under Linux
> just fine.
>
> The boost build steps are a bit different to Linux and OSX. On windows we
> need to specify library subsets to b2 rather than bootstrap using a --with-
> prefix for all required libraries.
>
> The installation of boost headers is slightly different under MinGW too,
> we end up with an include directory of ${BOOST_ROOT}/include/boost-1_54/
> instead of just the include base directory.
>
> There were some linking problems with github where I had to add
> ${wxWidgets_LIBRARIES}. I guess that is safe to do across all platforms?
> boost::asio requires us to link in a socket layer under MinGW too, so
> ws2_32 is added for MinGW only.
>
> Dick, if you've got time to review, could you give me your views and any
> suggestions for change?
>
> I should also add - this will not work with mingw32 as far as I have
> tested. The compilation of a subset of boost libraries does not work for me
> under the mingw32. This is probably a major problem as I expect most people
> who are using MinGW are still using the MinGW32 project and not the
> mingw-w64 project. With mingw32 using dwarf-2 though it doesn't really make
> any sense to me to use that project.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Brian.
>
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