5 Minipack is an automated build tool. Given a set of recipes and patches, it
6 downloads the sources, unpacks them, applies local patches, builds them and
7 installs them. Its primary use is for cross-compiling free software to
8 Windows, but minipack is more general-purpose than that.
10 To install, unpack it in any directory, and optionally set the PATH to it.
12 The tool can be run from anywhere, but it looks for a minipack.conf file
13 in the current directory or in a parent directory.
15 Some recipes for cross-compiling to Windows are included in the distribution:
16 * libraries: gtk+, guile, gd, freetype, libpng, jpeg, zlib, gettext.
17 * applications: gEDA/gaf, PCB.
18 See the 'recipes' directory for a full list.
20 When cross-compiling, you need a suitable cross-compiler for the host you are
21 targeting. On Debian and derivatives, you can type 'sudo apt-get install mingw32'
22 to get a MinGW cross-compiler. You can also build your own by using the build
23 script provided by the MinGW project.
25 Modify the host setting in the minipack.conf file to reflect the cross-compiler
26 being used. It can be found as the prefix of the compiler, eg. i586-mingw32msvc.
28 The build-all.sh script can be used to build all packages in one run. Edit the
29 BUILD list to select only a subset. Beware, some recipes require a native
30 version of pkg-config, others need the autotools and/or intltool as well.
36 The main (and only) tool of minipack is called mpk:
37 * mpk build <package> - download, unpack, and build a package.
38 * mpk unpack <package> - download and unpack a package
39 * mpk source <package> - download a source package
41 A cache of downloaded sources is kept in the 'sources' directory.
43 To add more recipes to minipack, place the recipe in the 'recipes' directory
44 and place the patches in a subdirectory of the 'patches' directory.