I finally got around to rewrite my build scripts again. But first let’s see what has happened in the past. As my notebook got stolen a few month back, I’ve lost the original scripts. Then I tried to write a “smarter” and more “modular” system, which ended up being just another mess after all and limiting me for the correct compilation of the Thor libraries. In between the last update and today, SFML has finally seen its long, very long, extremely long, awaited release, which also included an update to SFML’s website and the choice of the final logo. From now on I think many people will just stick to the official 2.0 release and wait for the next version, thus I didn’t feel obligated to keep the Nightly Builds update for every new commit and let it slide for a while. Till yesterday, when I decided to rewrite all the scripts and ended up doing so not only for SFML, but also for Thor, but since GCC 4.8 has been released in that timespan as well, I decided to switch out some compilers. In the past I’ve been quite happy with the rubenvb builds and I believe they are still very good, but I decided to switch to the MinGW Builds. On the search for GCC 4.8 MinGW versions, I’ve stumbled across nuwen.net, which is a project, where someone is keeping his development environment up-to-date with the public. Thus you get his own MinGW version, plus a few quite popular libraries pre-compiled. I believe this could be quite nice for people, that don’t feel like recompiling stuff every other week, which is why I’m supporting that project with my SFML builds. As a final note, I’m totally not a fan of the TDM builds, mainly because their default behavior regarding static linking goes against all the other GCC versions, but since it’s still the one compiler Code::Blocks ships with, I’ll keep it in the list for now.
Enjoy and as always, I’m very open for feedback!