Introduction

This repository contains build scripts used for building external libraries that are bundled with strawberry perl.

The binaries are available at:

• http://strawberryperl.com/package/kmx/32_libs/
• http://strawberryperl.com/package/kmx/64_libs/

Initial Setup

1. install base MSYS2 environment into e.g. z:\msys2 see https://sourceforge.net/projects/msys2/ run: z:\msys2\msys2_shell.cmd

2. install additional MSYS2 packages (no GCC!) from MSYS2 shell:

pacman -Sy --noconfirm curl wget ca-certificates openssh openssl nano tar xz p7zip zip unzip bzip2
pacman -Sy --noconfirm patch git make autoconf libtool nano automake man flex bison pkg-config 
pacman -Sy --noconfirm perl-libwww perl-IPC-Run3 perl-IO-Socket-SSL perl-Archive-Zip perl-LWP-Protocol-https perl-Digest-SHA
pacman -Sy --noconfirm python2
pacman -Syu --noconfirm

1. unpack gcc-4.8.3 toolchains into e.g. z:\mingw32bit.483 and z:\mingw64bit.483

   • http://strawberryperl.com/package/kmx/64_gcctoolchain/
   • http://strawberryperl.com/package/kmx/32_gcctoolchain/

2. unpack cmake into e.g. z:\cmake

   • get win binaries from: http://www.cmake.org/download/

3. download or git clone build-extlibs into e.g. z:\extlib

4. check correct paths to cmake and gcc in msys2_shell_483_32.bat and msys2_shell_483_64.bat

Building libraries

2. source code tarball must be listed in sources.list

3. edit "job file" e.g. 2014Q4

4. 32bit build:

   • start msys2_shell_483_32.bat
   • from MSYS2 shell:

$ cd /z/extlib
$ ./build.sh 2014Q4 _

• NOTE: _ means that all DLLs will have special suffix *_.dll e.g. zlib1_.dll

2. 64bit build:
   • start msys2_shell_483_64.bat
   • from MSYS2 shell:

$ cd /z/extlib
$ ./build.sh 2014Q4 __

• NOTE: __ means that all DLLs will have special suffix *__.dll e.g. zlib1__.dll

2. see _out directory for outputs