[ragel] Providing Windows ragel binary on the main page

[Ebrahim Byagowi]

Great, so I hope we see that soon :)

On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 4:11 PM, Adrian Thurston <thurston at colm.net> wrote:

> Awesome, thank you for the info! And yes I can certainly post a binary.
>
> On 2017-04-06 02:16, Ebrahim Byagowi wrote:
>
> I don't use Windows machines much also nowadays but I have a simple
> solution that one without a Windows can also build ragel windows binary:
>
> 1. Login into https://gist.github.com/ (is GitHub pastebin service which
> also provides Git repos at the same time) and type something and create an
> empty gist.
>
> 2. Login into https://ci.appveyor.com (is a Windows CI service) with your
> Github account, or any other way you like
>
> 3. https://ci.appveyor.com/projects/new create a new Git project with the
> empty gist link you just created on step 1.
>
> 4. Go to SETTING tab and on environment tab add this: RAGEL_VERSION with
> this value 6.10 then press Save
>
> 5. On Build, choose SCRIPT, then CMD and then enter this command
>
> C:\msys64\usr\bin\bash -lc 'cd $APPVEYOR_BUILD_FOLDER; wget
> http://www.colm.net/files/ragel/ragel-$RAGEL_VERSION.tar.gz; tar -xf
> ragel-$RAGEL_VERSION.tar.gz; cd ragel-$RAGEL_VERSION;
> PATH=$PATH:/mingw32/bin; ./configure --prefix=/mingw32/
> --build=i686-w64-mingw32 --host=i686-w64-mingw32; make LDFLAGS="--static"'
>
> Press Save.
>
> 6. On the Artifacts, add this artifact path,
>
> ragel-*/ragel/ragel.exe
>
> Press Save.
>
> 7. Go to the LATEST BUILD tab, press NEW BUILD
>
> 8. Wait for the completion of the build, after that, the self contained
> compiled exe output will be put on ARTIFICATS tab, download it.
>
> (This is just the simple working walkthrough, you can custom it as you
> wish, let me know if you failed on doing any of these steps)
>
> With this instruction, can I request putting this exe somewhere on the
> official site? Thanks
>
> On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 6:24 PM, Peter Reijnders <
> peter.reijnders at verpeteren.nl> wrote:
>
>> Hai
>>
>> This is something that I want to look into, once I got colm on msvc.
>> The downside is that I'm quite busy, so it might take a while for me
>> pick it (colm) up.
>>
>> Peter Reijnders
>>
>> On Wed, 2017-04-05 at 13:56 +0800, Adrian Thurston wrote:
>> > Hi Ebrahim,
>> >
>> > I'm not aware of anyone producing windows binaries right now. I don't
>> > do any development on windows myself so I don't build them.
>> >
>> > -Adrian
>> >
>> > On 2017-04-03 02:06, Ebrahim Byagowi wrote:
>> >
>> > > Hey guys, I remember there was a time (something like 3 or 4 years
>> > > ago?) that ragel Windows binary was also distributed on its main
>> > > page but now it is not. Can you please put the compiled Windows
>> > > binary of ragel on the main page again? That would be very helpful
>> > > for novice people trying to use ragel on Windows and for its use for
>> > > CI scripts targeting Windows. Thanks
>> > >
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