mingw64 packages

[Yaakov Selkowitz]

On Sat, 2020-10-31 at 10:29 +0100, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Since I seem to pick up more of these…  it is silly enough that you have
> to have two almost identical cygport files for the two architectures,
> but it does not make any sense to me to require these to be standalone
> git repositories.  They share the sources and (most) patches with the
> Cygwin package of the same name and I don't really intend to track those
> changes manually across multiple submodules.  So I'd like to keep these
> the same way I have done ZStandard: the Cygwin package and both MingW64
> packages in one Git repository.
> 
> That of course doesn't work in the CI as Scallywag gets its knickers in
> a twist when it sees more than one cygport file in the checkout.  That
> looks like something that could hopefully be solved with either a YAML
> file or some more smarts on the Scallywag side?

I had some work pending in cygport to allow a single .cygport to build
both i686 and x86_64 mingw packages.  That would probably be the best
approach to this.  (Cygwin native and MinGW cross builds are often
different enough that trying to lump them all together is a bit of a
stretch imo.)

-- 
Yaakov