RFC: Disabling MinGW support in Wine packages (e.g. Debian)

[Sveinar Søpler]

The upcoming packages for debian currently in unstable:
https://packages.debian.org/unstable/wine-development
Seems to be built with mingw on x86/amd64

# build with mingw on intel architectures
ifeq ($(DEB_HOST_ARCH), i386)
CONFLAGS+=--with-mingw
endif
ifeq ($(DEB_HOST_ARCH), amd64)
CONFLAGS+=--with-mingw
endif

Sveinar

On 28.07.2021 21:50, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
> Francois Gouget <fgouget at free.fr> writes:
>
>> Debian's Wine packages build with --without-mingw.
>>
>> See debian/rules in:
>> http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/w/wine/wine_5.0.3-3.debian.tar.xz
>>
>> If I remember correctly this increases the chance of not being able to
>> run applications that expect specific binary layouts for Windows
>> function prologues, i.e. mostly those with copy-prevention / anti-cheat
>> schemes.
>>
>> If so packages that needlessly disable MinGW are doing their users a
>> disservice and are not presenting Wine in its best light.
>>
>> Do I remember correctly?
>> Should packagers be advised not to compile without MinGW?
> It's less important for an older release like 5.0, but yes, in general
> disabling MinGW is a bad idea.
>