✧✦Catherine✦✧whitequark@treehouse.systems
Apr 21, 2026, 3:33 AMi'm trembling in anticipation of writing the horrifying meta-CMake abomination
(in terror? in excitement? you decide)
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- ✧✦Catherine✦✧whitequark@treehouse.systemsApr 21, 2026, 3:40 AM
i think pkgsrc and gentoo would probably solve my problem for Linux (and maybe macOS) but neither of them will produce Windows binaries with MSVC. the search continues
Apr 21, 2026, 4:50 AM@whitequark I had success in the past cross-compiling for windows using mxe.cc. From recollection I was just using a pretty basic Makefile.
(this would have been ~15 years ago on Qt5)
Val Packett 🧉valpackett@treehouse.systemsApr 21, 2026, 12:39 PM@whitequark could BuildStream help? idk if any of the existing recipes build qt for windoze but if you make one it will do an okay job for caching it and downloading from a remote cache next time in CI etc.