[Vorbis] Shipping development files for mingw32

[anatoly techtonik]

On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 2:39 PM, Cristian Adam <cristian.adam at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 11:25 AM, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is is possible to ship development files for MinGW32
>> like static libs and headers? I am particularly interested
>> in libvorbisfile required to build Wesnoth on Windows.
>> SDL2 provides a convenient distribution that I unpack
>> and it works:
>>
>> https://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_mixer/release/SDL2_mixer-devel-2.0.1-mingw.tar.gz
>> https://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_mixer/
>>
>> But I can't find where I can download libvorbisfile.a for
>> i686-w64-mingw32 and can't compile it, because
>> building from source requires installing Linux tools like
>> bash, m4 and autoconf on Windows.
>>
>
> The github versions of vorbis and ogg can be built with CMake.
>
> Let's say you downloaded ogg (ogg-master.zip) and vorbis (vorbis-master.zip)
> from github  and
> unpacked them in c:\Projects\ogg-master and c:\Projects\vorbis-master
>
> The following commands should help you build libvorbisfile.a.
>
> $ set PATH=c:\MinGW64\bin;%PATH%
> $ cd c:\Projects
> $ mkdir ogg-master-build
> $ cd ogg-master-build
> $ cmake -G "MinGW Makefiles" ..\ogg-master -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
> $ mingw32-make
> $ cd ..
> $ mkdir vorbis-master-build
> $ cd vorbis-master-build
> $ cmake -G "MinGW Makefiles" ..\vorbis-master -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
> -DOGG_INCLUDE_DIRS=../ogg-master/include -DOGG_LIBRARIES=../ogg-master-build
> $ mingw32-make

Wesnoth uses CMake and SCons. However, I use SCons (and writing
bootstrap script for it to get all dependencies automatically). Is
there an option to use SCons or go without additional build step and
CMake install?

-- 
anatoly t.