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authorMarius Kintel <marius@kintel.net>2012-08-13 19:57:16 (GMT)
committerMarius Kintel <marius@kintel.net>2012-08-13 19:57:16 (GMT)
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Merge pull request #170 from openscad/mingw_installer2
Mingw installer2
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### Building for Windows
OpenSCAD for Windows is usually cross-compiled from Linux. If you wish to
-attempt an MSVC build, please see this site:
+attempt an MSVC build on Windows, please see this site:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenSCAD_User_Manual/Building_on_Windows
+To cross-build, first make sure that you have development tools
+installed to get GCC. Then after you've cloned this git repository, run
+the script that sets up the environment variables.
+
+ source ./scripts/setenv-mingw-xbuild.sh
+
+Then run the script to download & compile all the prerequisite libraries above:
+
+ ./scripts/mingw-x-build-dependencies.sh
+
+Then skip the compilation instructions below. Instead, build an installer:
+
+ OSTYPE=mingw-cross-env ./scripts/release-common.sh
+
### Compilation
First, run 'qmake' from Qt4 to generate a Makefile. On some systems you need to
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