Way back when we first started the mingw project in Fedora we took the decision to maintain the mingw builds as separate source RPMs in Fedora. The rationale was that mingw support was a new concept to Fedora with many unknowns. We often had custom mingw only patches, and there was a decent chance there would be breakage upon rebases. We didn't want to burden the native package maintainers with mingw support as that would have increased pushback against the effort. This decision was always going to cause us problems with keeping the mingw dist-git packages in sync with native dist-git packages. This is especially important when it comes to security fixes, and there have been reasonably well justified complaints about mingw lagging native wrt to CVE fixing in recent times. Since the early days we merged the separate mingw32-$PKG / mingw64-$PKG source RPMS into a single mingw-$PKG in dist-git. The need for patching mingw RPMs to fix problems in Fedora doesn't seem any higher than the need for patching to fix native build problem. Generally things just work when rebasing, because most upstreams recognize the importance of keeping their projects working on mingw. IOW, we were afraid of a maintainer burden that has turned out to largely not exist. To address this non-existant burden, we intentionally made the maint of mingw packages harder than it needs to be in Fedora. This is a long winded way of saying I think it is time to update the mingw packaging guidelines to allow for, even recommend, mingw packaging to be a standard part of the native RPM spec. In doing so we eliminate the main burden of mingw packaging in Feora and guarantee that we'll always be up to date wrt bug/security fixes and rebases. I've done some basic tests with libvirt-glib upstream which recently changed to using Meson. Supporting mingw in the main libvirt-glib.spec was largely trivial. I simply needed to copy the various blocks of the mingw-libvirt-glib.spec file into the libvirt-glib.spec, ending up with a diff: diff --git a/libvirt-glib.spec.in b/libvirt-glib.spec.in index 58e6242..81f972b 100644 --- a/libvirt-glib.spec.in +++ b/libvirt-glib.spec.in @@ -1,5 +1,15 @@ # -*- rpm-spec -*- +%bcond_without mingw + +%define _with_mingw 0 +%if 0%{?fedora} +%define _with_mingw 0%{with mingw} +%endif + +%define mingw32_pkg_name mingw32-%{name} +%define mingw64_pkg_name mingw64-%{name} + Name: libvirt-glib Version: @VERSION@ Release: 1%{?dist} @@ -16,6 +26,16 @@ BuildRequires: libxml2-devel BuildRequires: vala-tools BuildRequires: gettext +%if %{_with_mingw} +BuildRequires: mingw32-filesystem +BuildRequires: mingw64-filesystem +BuildRequires: mingw32-glib2 +BuildRequires: mingw64-glib2 +BuildRequires: mingw32-libvirt +BuildRequires: mingw64-libvirt +%endif + + %package devel Summary: libvirt glib integration for events development files Requires: %{name} = %{version}-%{release} @@ -37,6 +57,42 @@ Requires: libvirt-gconfig-devel = %{version}-%{release} Requires: libvirt-gobject = %{version}-%{release} Requires: libvirt-devel + +%if %{_with_mingw} + +%package -n mingw32-libvirt-glib +Summary: MingwGW Windows libvirt-gconfig virtualization library +BuildArch: noarch +Requires: pkgconfig + +%package -n mingw32-libvirt-gconfig +Summary: MingwGW Windows libvirt-gconfig virtualization library +BuildArch: noarch +Requires: pkgconfig + +%package -n mingw32-libvirt-gobject +Summary: MingwGW Windows libvirt-gobject virtualization library +BuildArch: noarch +Requires: pkgconfig + +%package -n mingw64-libvirt-glib +Summary: MingwGW Windows libvirt-gconfig virtualization library +BuildArch: noarch +Requires: pkgconfig + +%package -n mingw64-libvirt-gconfig +Summary: MingwGW Windows libvirt-gconfig virtualization library +BuildArch: noarch +Requires: pkgconfig + +%package -n mingw64-libvirt-gobject +Summary: MingwGW Windows libvirt-gobject virtualization library +BuildArch: noarch +Requires: pkgconfig + +%endif + + %description This package provides integration between libvirt and the glib event loop. @@ -61,6 +117,31 @@ objects This package provides development header files and libraries for managing virtualization host objects +%if %{_with_mingw} + +%description -n mingw32-libvirt-glib +MinGW Windows libvirt-glib virtualization library. + +%description -n mingw32-libvirt-gconfig +MinGW Windows libvirt-gconfig virtualization library. + +%description -n mingw32-libvirt-gobject +MinGW Windows libvirt-gobject virtualization library. + + +%description -n mingw64-libvirt-glib +MinGW Windows libvirt-glib virtualization library. + +%description -n mingw64-libvirt-gconfig +MinGW Windows libvirt-gconfig virtualization library. + +%description -n mingw64-libvirt-gobject +MinGW Windows libvirt-gobject virtualization library. + +%{?mingw_debug_package} +%endif + + %prep %setup -q @@ -68,11 +149,23 @@ managing virtualization host objects %meson -Drpath=disabled %meson_build +%if %{_with_mingw} +%mingw_meson -Drpath=disabled -Ddocs=disabled +%mingw_ninja +%endif + %install %meson_install %find_lang %{name} +%if %{_with_mingw} +%mingw_ninja_install + +%mingw_find_lang libvirt-glib +%mingw_debug_install_post +%endif + %check %meson_test @@ -140,4 +233,87 @@ managing virtualization host objects %{_datadir}/vala/vapi/libvirt-gobject-1.0.deps %{_datadir}/vala/vapi/libvirt-gobject-1.0.vapi + +%if %{_with_mingw} + +%files -n mingw32-libvirt-glib -f mingw32-libvirt-glib.lang +%doc README COPYING AUTHORS NEWS +%{mingw32_bindir}/libvirt-glib-1.0-0.dll + +%{mingw32_libdir}/libvirt-glib-1.0.dll.a + +%{mingw32_libdir}/pkgconfig/libvirt-glib-1.0.pc + +%dir %{mingw32_includedir}/libvirt-glib-1.0 +%dir %{mingw32_includedir}/libvirt-glib-1.0/libvirt-glib +%{mingw32_includedir}/libvirt-glib-1.0/libvirt-glib/libvirt-glib.h +%{mingw32_includedir}/libvirt-glib-1.0/libvirt-glib/libvirt-glib-*.h + +%files -n mingw64-libvirt-glib -f mingw64-libvirt-glib.lang +%doc README COPYING AUTHORS NEWS +%{mingw64_bindir}/libvirt-glib-1.0-0.dll + +%{mingw64_libdir}/libvirt-glib-1.0.dll.a + +%{mingw64_libdir}/pkgconfig/libvirt-glib-1.0.pc + +%dir %{mingw64_includedir}/libvirt-glib-1.0 +%dir %{mingw64_includedir}/libvirt-glib-1.0/libvirt-glib +%{mingw64_includedir}/libvirt-glib-1.0/libvirt-glib/libvirt-glib.h +%{mingw64_includedir}/libvirt-glib-1.0/libvirt-glib/libvirt-glib-*.h + + + +%files -n mingw32-libvirt-gconfig +%{mingw32_bindir}/libvirt-gconfig-1.0-0.dll + +%{mingw32_libdir}/libvirt-gconfig-1.0.dll.a + +%{mingw32_libdir}/pkgconfig/libvirt-gconfig-1.0.pc + +%dir %{mingw32_includedir}/libvirt-gconfig-1.0 +%dir %{mingw32_includedir}/libvirt-gconfig-1.0/libvirt-gconfig +%{mingw32_includedir}/libvirt-gconfig-1.0/libvirt-gconfig/libvirt-gconfig.h +%{mingw32_includedir}/libvirt-gconfig-1.0/libvirt-gconfig/libvirt-gconfig-*.h + +%files -n mingw64-libvirt-gconfig +%{mingw64_bindir}/libvirt-gconfig-1.0-0.dll + +%{mingw64_libdir}/libvirt-gconfig-1.0.dll.a + +%{mingw64_libdir}/pkgconfig/libvirt-gconfig-1.0.pc + +%dir %{mingw64_includedir}/libvirt-gconfig-1.0 +%dir %{mingw64_includedir}/libvirt-gconfig-1.0/libvirt-gconfig +%{mingw64_includedir}/libvirt-gconfig-1.0/libvirt-gconfig/libvirt-gconfig.h +%{mingw64_includedir}/libvirt-gconfig-1.0/libvirt-gconfig/libvirt-gconfig-*.h + + + +%files -n mingw32-libvirt-gobject +%{mingw32_bindir}/libvirt-gobject-1.0-0.dll + +%{mingw32_libdir}/libvirt-gobject-1.0.dll.a + +%{mingw32_libdir}/pkgconfig/libvirt-gobject-1.0.pc + +%dir %{mingw32_includedir}/libvirt-gobject-1.0 +%dir %{mingw32_includedir}/libvirt-gobject-1.0/libvirt-gobject +%{mingw32_includedir}/libvirt-gobject-1.0/libvirt-gobject/libvirt-gobject.h +%{mingw32_includedir}/libvirt-gobject-1.0/libvirt-gobject/libvirt-gobject-*.h + +%files -n mingw64-libvirt-gobject +%{mingw64_bindir}/libvirt-gobject-1.0-0.dll + +%{mingw64_libdir}/libvirt-gobject-1.0.dll.a + +%{mingw64_libdir}/pkgconfig/libvirt-gobject-1.0.pc + +%dir %{mingw64_includedir}/libvirt-gobject-1.0 +%dir %{mingw64_includedir}/libvirt-gobject-1.0/libvirt-gobject +%{mingw64_includedir}/libvirt-gobject-1.0/libvirt-gobject/libvirt-gobject.h +%{mingw64_includedir}/libvirt-gobject-1.0/libvirt-gobject/libvirt-gobject-*.h + +%endif + %changelog Some notes: * We need to set mingw32_pkg_name/mingw64_pkg_name explicitly because the current logic that sets these doesn't work: %mingw32_pkg_name %(echo %{name} | sed 's/^mingw-/mingw32-/') Presumably we can fix that macro so that it does the right thing when no mingw- prefix exists in the first place * We can't use %mingw_package_header because that splatters the native debuginfo generation. So we must explicitly add mingw debuginfo packages by referencing %{?mingw_debug_package} and at end of %install add %mingw_debug_install_post * %mingw_package_header has reference to overriding strip/objdump to prevent corruption of binaries. We can't do that override because we need native strip/objdump for the native builds. AFAICT though, no corruption happened to my DLLs even without this strip/objdump override. Looks like this caveat might be obsolete, unless the scenarios it hits are more niche than I tested. * %mingw_package_header tries to disable the internal dependancy generator on RHEL 6. For reasons I don't understand, it ends up disabling it on Fedora too. %mingw_package_header \ %global __strip %{mingw_strip} \ %global __objdump %{mingw_objdump} \ %if 0%{?rhel} == 6 \ %global _use_internal_dependency_generator 0 \ %global __find_requires %{mingw_findrequires} \ %global __find_provides %{mingw_findprovides} \ %endif \ %global __debug_install_post %%{mingw_debug_install_post} \ %{nil} Those three %global inside the rhel conditional *do* get evaluated on Fedora. We can see this in the old build logs in fact https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/mingw-libvirt-glib/4.0.0/1.fc... warning: Deprecated external dependency generator is used! Finding Provides: /usr/lib/rpm/mingw-find-provides.sh mingw32 mingw64 .... When I hack macros.mingw to remove the dep generator override code entirely, almost everything still seems to work. rpm's built-in dep generator still adds the mingw32(libssp-0.dll) virtual deps. The only thing that gets lost is the dep on mingw-pkg-config IOW it looks like RPMs built-in dep generator pretty much does the right thing. Just need to add a manual mingw-pkg-config dep * Converting meson packages was easy because meson always uses a separate build dir. Many autoconf based packages default to building in the source dir. The first step would thus have to be to make the native build use a separate build dir. In theory this should be easy as mingw autoconf macros are already doing this, but I always expect dragons with autoconf.

In summary based on my tests I think killing off the separate dist-git / RPM spec for mingw looks feasible unless someone knows of hidden show stoppers I haven't hit yet. I think we should go ahead and do this for some packages to demonstrate the concept in the real world, and I'm volunteering to coordinate it for all the virtualization packages I'm involved in maint of because I can't even reliably keep them in sync myself. libvirt, libvirt-glib, libosinfo, osinfo-db-tools, gtk-vnc, spice-gtk all use meson, so should mirror the approach above and be quite easy. Once we can demonstrate the real world impact, we can socialize the idea on Fedora devel list more widely and then also approach maintainers of other native packages to attempt to convince them to accept mingw sub-RPMs into their specs. Every mingw package we can get merged into native package frees up a little more time for to spend on the remaining mingw packages that are still separate. Ideally we'd get 100% merged long term, but even if we get refusals from native maintainers, we'll still be better off with those we do succeed in merging.

[Adding the devel list, since this change would obviously affect several "base" packages.] On Mon, Mar 01, 2021 at 01:31:13PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > Way back when we first started the mingw project in Fedora we took the > decision to maintain the mingw builds as separate source RPMs in Fedora. > The rationale was that mingw support was a new concept to Fedora with > many unknowns. We often had custom mingw only patches, and there was a > decent chance there would be breakage upon rebases. We didn't want to > burden the native package maintainers with mingw support as that would > have increased pushback against the effort. > > This decision was always going to cause us problems with keeping the > mingw dist-git packages in sync with native dist-git packages. This > is especially important when it comes to security fixes, and there > have been reasonably well justified complaints about mingw lagging > native wrt to CVE fixing in recent times. > > > Since the early days we merged the separate mingw32-$PKG / mingw64-$PKG > source RPMS into a single mingw-$PKG in dist-git. The need for patching > mingw RPMs to fix problems in Fedora doesn't seem any higher than the > need for patching to fix native build problem. Generally things just > work when rebasing, because most upstreams recognize the importance > of keeping their projects working on mingw. > > IOW, we were afraid of a maintainer burden that has turned out to > largely not exist. To address this non-existant burden, we intentionally > made the maint of mingw packages harder than it needs to be in Fedora. > > > This is a long winded way of saying I think it is time to update > the mingw packaging guidelines to allow for, even recommend, mingw > packaging to be a standard part of the native RPM spec. In doing > so we eliminate the main burden of mingw packaging in Feora and > guarantee that we'll always be up to date wrt bug/security fixes > and rebases. > > I've done some basic tests with libvirt-glib upstream which recently > changed to using Meson. Supporting mingw in the main libvirt-glib.spec > was largely trivial. I simply needed to copy the various blocks of > the mingw-libvirt-glib.spec file into the libvirt-glib.spec, ending > up with a diff: > > diff --git a/libvirt-glib.spec.in b/libvirt-glib.spec.in > index 58e6242..81f972b 100644 > --- a/libvirt-glib.spec.in > +++ b/libvirt-glib.spec.in > @@ -1,5 +1,15 @@ > # -*- rpm-spec -*- > > +%bcond_without mingw > + > +%define _with_mingw 0 > +%if 0%{?fedora} > +%define _with_mingw 0%{with mingw} > +%endif > + > +%define mingw32_pkg_name mingw32-%{name} > +%define mingw64_pkg_name mingw64-%{name} > + > Name: libvirt-glib > Version: @VERSION@ > Release: 1%{?dist} > @@ -16,6 +26,16 @@ BuildRequires: libxml2-devel > BuildRequires: vala-tools > BuildRequires: gettext > > +%if %{_with_mingw} > +BuildRequires: mingw32-filesystem > +BuildRequires: mingw64-filesystem > +BuildRequires: mingw32-glib2 > +BuildRequires: mingw64-glib2 > +BuildRequires: mingw32-libvirt > +BuildRequires: mingw64-libvirt > +%endif > + > + > %package devel > Summary: libvirt glib integration for events development files > Requires: %{name} = %{version}-%{release} > @@ -37,6 +57,42 @@ Requires: libvirt-gconfig-devel = %{version}-%{release} > Requires: libvirt-gobject = %{version}-%{release} > Requires: libvirt-devel > > + > +%if %{_with_mingw} > + > +%package -n mingw32-libvirt-glib > +Summary: MingwGW Windows libvirt-gconfig virtualization library > +BuildArch: noarch > +Requires: pkgconfig > + > +%package -n mingw32-libvirt-gconfig > +Summary: MingwGW Windows libvirt-gconfig virtualization library > +BuildArch: noarch > +Requires: pkgconfig > + > +%package -n mingw32-libvirt-gobject > +Summary: MingwGW Windows libvirt-gobject virtualization library > +BuildArch: noarch > +Requires: pkgconfig > + > +%package -n mingw64-libvirt-glib > +Summary: MingwGW Windows libvirt-gconfig virtualization library > +BuildArch: noarch > +Requires: pkgconfig > + > +%package -n mingw64-libvirt-gconfig > +Summary: MingwGW Windows libvirt-gconfig virtualization library > +BuildArch: noarch > +Requires: pkgconfig > + > +%package -n mingw64-libvirt-gobject > +Summary: MingwGW Windows libvirt-gobject virtualization library > +BuildArch: noarch > +Requires: pkgconfig > + > +%endif > + > + > %description > This package provides integration between libvirt and the glib > event loop. > @@ -61,6 +117,31 @@ objects > This package provides development header files and libraries for > managing virtualization host objects > > +%if %{_with_mingw} > + > +%description -n mingw32-libvirt-glib > +MinGW Windows libvirt-glib virtualization library. > + > +%description -n mingw32-libvirt-gconfig > +MinGW Windows libvirt-gconfig virtualization library. > + > +%description -n mingw32-libvirt-gobject > +MinGW Windows libvirt-gobject virtualization library. > + > + > +%description -n mingw64-libvirt-glib > +MinGW Windows libvirt-glib virtualization library. > + > +%description -n mingw64-libvirt-gconfig > +MinGW Windows libvirt-gconfig virtualization library. > + > +%description -n mingw64-libvirt-gobject > +MinGW Windows libvirt-gobject virtualization library. > + > +%{?mingw_debug_package} > +%endif > + > + > %prep > %setup -q > > @@ -68,11 +149,23 @@ managing virtualization host objects > %meson -Drpath=disabled > %meson_build > > +%if %{_with_mingw} > +%mingw_meson -Drpath=disabled -Ddocs=disabled > +%mingw_ninja > +%endif > + > %install > %meson_install > > %find_lang %{name} > > +%if %{_with_mingw} > +%mingw_ninja_install > + > +%mingw_find_lang libvirt-glib > +%mingw_debug_install_post > +%endif > + > %check > %meson_test > > @@ -140,4 +233,87 @@ managing virtualization host objects > %{_datadir}/vala/vapi/libvirt-gobject-1.0.deps > %{_datadir}/vala/vapi/libvirt-gobject-1.0.vapi > > + > +%if %{_with_mingw} > + > +%files -n mingw32-libvirt-glib -f mingw32-libvirt-glib.lang > +%doc README COPYING AUTHORS NEWS > +%{mingw32_bindir}/libvirt-glib-1.0-0.dll > + > +%{mingw32_libdir}/libvirt-glib-1.0.dll.a > + > +%{mingw32_libdir}/pkgconfig/libvirt-glib-1.0.pc > + > +%dir %{mingw32_includedir}/libvirt-glib-1.0 > +%dir %{mingw32_includedir}/libvirt-glib-1.0/libvirt-glib > +%{mingw32_includedir}/libvirt-glib-1.0/libvirt-glib/libvirt-glib.h > +%{mingw32_includedir}/libvirt-glib-1.0/libvirt-glib/libvirt-glib-*.h > + > +%files -n mingw64-libvirt-glib -f mingw64-libvirt-glib.lang > +%doc README COPYING AUTHORS NEWS > +%{mingw64_bindir}/libvirt-glib-1.0-0.dll > + > +%{mingw64_libdir}/libvirt-glib-1.0.dll.a > + > +%{mingw64_libdir}/pkgconfig/libvirt-glib-1.0.pc > + > +%dir %{mingw64_includedir}/libvirt-glib-1.0 > +%dir %{mingw64_includedir}/libvirt-glib-1.0/libvirt-glib > +%{mingw64_includedir}/libvirt-glib-1.0/libvirt-glib/libvirt-glib.h > +%{mingw64_includedir}/libvirt-glib-1.0/libvirt-glib/libvirt-glib-*.h > + > + > + > +%files -n mingw32-libvirt-gconfig > +%{mingw32_bindir}/libvirt-gconfig-1.0-0.dll > + > +%{mingw32_libdir}/libvirt-gconfig-1.0.dll.a > + > +%{mingw32_libdir}/pkgconfig/libvirt-gconfig-1.0.pc > + > +%dir %{mingw32_includedir}/libvirt-gconfig-1.0 > +%dir %{mingw32_includedir}/libvirt-gconfig-1.0/libvirt-gconfig > +%{mingw32_includedir}/libvirt-gconfig-1.0/libvirt-gconfig/libvirt-gconfig.h > +%{mingw32_includedir}/libvirt-gconfig-1.0/libvirt-gconfig/libvirt-gconfig-*.h > + > +%files -n mingw64-libvirt-gconfig > +%{mingw64_bindir}/libvirt-gconfig-1.0-0.dll > + > +%{mingw64_libdir}/libvirt-gconfig-1.0.dll.a > + > +%{mingw64_libdir}/pkgconfig/libvirt-gconfig-1.0.pc > + > +%dir %{mingw64_includedir}/libvirt-gconfig-1.0 > +%dir %{mingw64_includedir}/libvirt-gconfig-1.0/libvirt-gconfig > +%{mingw64_includedir}/libvirt-gconfig-1.0/libvirt-gconfig/libvirt-gconfig.h > +%{mingw64_includedir}/libvirt-gconfig-1.0/libvirt-gconfig/libvirt-gconfig-*.h > + > + > + > +%files -n mingw32-libvirt-gobject > +%{mingw32_bindir}/libvirt-gobject-1.0-0.dll > + > +%{mingw32_libdir}/libvirt-gobject-1.0.dll.a > + > +%{mingw32_libdir}/pkgconfig/libvirt-gobject-1.0.pc > + > +%dir %{mingw32_includedir}/libvirt-gobject-1.0 > +%dir %{mingw32_includedir}/libvirt-gobject-1.0/libvirt-gobject > +%{mingw32_includedir}/libvirt-gobject-1.0/libvirt-gobject/libvirt-gobject.h > +%{mingw32_includedir}/libvirt-gobject-1.0/libvirt-gobject/libvirt-gobject-*.h > + > +%files -n mingw64-libvirt-gobject > +%{mingw64_bindir}/libvirt-gobject-1.0-0.dll > + > +%{mingw64_libdir}/libvirt-gobject-1.0.dll.a > + > +%{mingw64_libdir}/pkgconfig/libvirt-gobject-1.0.pc > + > +%dir %{mingw64_includedir}/libvirt-gobject-1.0 > +%dir %{mingw64_includedir}/libvirt-gobject-1.0/libvirt-gobject > +%{mingw64_includedir}/libvirt-gobject-1.0/libvirt-gobject/libvirt-gobject.h > +%{mingw64_includedir}/libvirt-gobject-1.0/libvirt-gobject/libvirt-gobject-*.h > + > +%endif > + > %changelog > > > Some notes: > > * We need to set mingw32_pkg_name/mingw64_pkg_name explicitly > because the current logic that sets these doesn't work: > > %mingw32_pkg_name %(echo %{name} | sed 's/^mingw-/mingw32-/') > > Presumably we can fix that macro so that it does the right thing > when no mingw- prefix exists in the first place > > * We can't use %mingw_package_header because that splatters the > native debuginfo generation. So we must explicitly add mingw > debuginfo packages by referencing > > %{?mingw_debug_package} > > and at end of %install add > > %mingw_debug_install_post > > > * %mingw_package_header has reference to overriding strip/objdump > to prevent corruption of binaries. We can't do that override > because we need native strip/objdump for the native builds. > > AFAICT though, no corruption happened to my DLLs even without > this strip/objdump override. Looks like this caveat might be > obsolete, unless the scenarios it hits are more niche than I > tested. > > * %mingw_package_header tries to disable the internal dependancy > generator on RHEL 6. For reasons I don't understand, it ends > up disabling it on Fedora too. > > %mingw_package_header \ > %global __strip %{mingw_strip} \ > %global __objdump %{mingw_objdump} \ > %if 0%{?rhel} == 6 \ > %global _use_internal_dependency_generator 0 \ > %global __find_requires %{mingw_findrequires} \ > %global __find_provides %{mingw_findprovides} \ > %endif \ > %global __debug_install_post %%{mingw_debug_install_post} \ > %{nil} This looks just like a bug. > Those three %global inside the rhel conditional *do* get > evaluated on Fedora. We can see this in the old build logs > in fact > > https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/mingw-libvirt-glib/4.0.0/1.fc... > > warning: Deprecated external dependency generator is used! > Finding Provides: /usr/lib/rpm/mingw-find-provides.sh mingw32 mingw64 > .... > > When I hack macros.mingw to remove the dep generator override > code entirely, almost everything still seems to work. rpm's > built-in dep generator still adds the mingw32(libssp-0.dll) > virtual deps. The only thing that gets lost is the dep on > mingw-pkg-config > > IOW it looks like RPMs built-in dep generator pretty much does > the right thing. Just need to add a manual mingw-pkg-config > dep > > * Converting meson packages was easy because meson always uses > a separate build dir. Many autoconf based packages default > to building in the source dir. The first step would thus have > to be to make the native build use a separate build dir. In > theory this should be easy as mingw autoconf macros are > already doing this, but I always expect dragons with autoconf. > > > In summary based on my tests I think killing off the separate dist-git > / RPM spec for mingw looks feasible unless someone knows of hidden > show stoppers I haven't hit yet. > > I think we should go ahead and do this for some packages to demonstrate > the concept in the real world, and I'm volunteering to coordinate it for > all the virtualization packages I'm involved in maint of because I can't > even reliably keep them in sync myself. libvirt, libvirt-glib, libosinfo, > osinfo-db-tools, gtk-vnc, spice-gtk all use meson, so should mirror the > approach above and be quite easy. > > Once we can demonstrate the real world impact, we can socialize the idea > on Fedora devel list more widely and then also approach maintainers > of other native packages to attempt to convince them to accept mingw > sub-RPMs into their specs. Every mingw package we can get merged into > native package frees up a little more time for to spend on the remaining > mingw packages that are still separate. Ideally we'd get 100% merged > long term, but even if we get refusals from native maintainers, we'll > still be better off with those we do succeed in merging. > > Regards, > Daniel Sounds in general like a good idea, but I think we should make it opt-in only for the foreseeable future. Some packagers won't appreciate the extra overhead of all the mingw stuff.