flac dev - Jul 2013 - The next release (pre-compiled windows and mac binaries)

Hi all,

I consider the last FLAC release a huge success. I expected to release
something with far more bugs and then be forced into another bug fix
release in short order.

Its seems the only real problem with that release was the lack of
binaries for windows and mac. I would like to fix that in the next
release which I am hoping to get out in the next month or two.

That leaves the question of how these binaries are generated. I've
spoken to Ralph Giles (Xiph) and he'd like make sure we know the
exact provinance of all binaries hosted on the Xiph web site. Its
not that we don't trust anyone, its just that we want to know exactly
what went into it.

My current thoughts are that the win32 and win64 binaries can be
cross compiled from Linux and packaged as setup.exe style installer.
Ralph also has a Mac and we could create a dpg or whatever is most
common there.

We would also like whatever build scripts used to build these FLAC
binaries in the actual FLAC git repo.

Does this sound like a plan?

Cheers,
Erik
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On 09-07-13 23:00, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> That leaves the question of how these binaries are generated. I've
> spoken to Ralph Giles (Xiph) and he'd like make sure we know the
> exact provinance of all binaries hosted on the Xiph web site. Its
> not that we don't trust anyone, its just that we want to know exactly
> what went into it.
I think that is a very good idea. Just take a look at how many different 
FLAC 1.3.0 compiles are out there now...
> My current thoughts are that the win32 and win64 binaries can be
> cross compiled from Linux and packaged as setup.exe style installer.
> Ralph also has a Mac and we could create a dpg or whatever is most
> common there.
>
> [...]
>
> Does this sound like a plan?
Sure. Maybe it's a good idea to enhance the make check and make 
fullcheck targets to run FLAC through wine if requested, just like 
there's a configure switch to test with valgrind.

Martijn van Beurden wrote:
> I think that is a very good idea. Just take a look at how many different 
> FLAC 1.3.0 compiles are out there now...
Yes a canonical officially blessed version would clarify that
situation.
 
> > My current thoughts are that the win32 and win64 binaries can be
> > cross compiled from Linux and packaged as setup.exe style installer.
> > Ralph also has a Mac and we could create a dpg or whatever is most
> > common there.
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > Does this sound like a plan?
> 
> Sure. Maybe it's a good idea to enhance the make check and make 
> fullcheck targets to run FLAC through wine if requested, just like 
> there's a configure switch to test with valgrind.
That reminds me that there is some problem with running the tests
under Wine. That will have to be fixed of course, but Wine still
only runs 32 bit windows binaries.

What I did for libsndfile was generate a binary test suite tarball
that could be untarred on the target system where the tests needed
to be run. I'll probably do something like that.

Erik
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