openscad/openscad — pull request #167 by donbright (2012-08-04 00:48:10+00:00)
Title: Mingw installer

this provides some additionaly scripts for cross building a Windows OpenSCAD under the mingw system. it's main focus is on building 'installable packages' for windows.

It integrates with the 'release' system under docs/release-checklist.txt, so that running 'publish-mingw-x' will create the binary .zip file package as well as a .exe installer. The pieces that used to have to be downloaded separately (file-association.nsh) have been included (zlib BSD-style license). The build should be fully automated if the appropriate tools are installed (nsis, gcc, etc)

it can also be used 'one off' to build complete installable test builds for volunteers to experiment with regarding discussions on the mailing list. ( use the mingw-build-installer script by itself )

it also moves building to an 'out of source' build under 'mingw32', so that linux users can have a single source tree and build both linux and windows binaries from it, without interefering with each other.