PKGBUILDs

Contains PKGBUILD files for creating Arch Linux packages:

• Packages for my own applications and libraries such as Syncthing Tray, Tag Editor, Password Manager, ...
• Packages I maintain in the AUR:
  • misc packages, eg. Subtitle Composer, openelec-dvb-firmware
  • mingw-w64 packages which allow to build for Windows under Arch Linux, eg. freetype2 and Qt 5
  • apple-darwin packages which allow to build for MaxOS X under Arch Linux, eg. osxcross and Qt 5 (still experimental)
• Other packages imported from the AUR to build with slight modifications

So if you like to improve one of my AUR packages, just create a PR here.

Binary repository

I also provide a binary repository containing the packages found in this repository and a lot of packages found in the AUR:

[ownstuff-testing]
SigLevel = Optional TrustAll
Server = https://martchus.no-ip.biz/repo/arch/$repo/os/$arch

[ownstuff]
SigLevel = Optional TrustAll
Server = https://martchus.no-ip.biz/repo/arch/$repo/os/$arch

The testing repository is required if you have also enabled the official testing repository. (Packages contained by ownstuff-testing are linked against packages found in the official testing repository.)

Note that I can not assure that required rebuilds always happen fast enough (since the offical developers obviously don't wait for me before releasing their packages from staging).

Docker image

Checkout the repository docker-mingw-qt5.

Structure

Each package is in its own subdirectoy:

default-pkg-name/variant

where default-pkg-name is the default package name (eg. qt5-base) and variant usually one of:

• default: the regular package
• git/svn/hg: the development version
• mingw-w64: the Windows version
• apple-darwin: the MacOS X version

The repository does not contain .SRCINFO files.

Contributing to patches

Patches for most packages are managed in a fork of the project under my GitHub profile. For instance, patches for mingw-w64-qt5-base are managed at github.com/Martchus/qtbase.

I usually create a dedicated branch for each version, eg. 5.10.1-mingw-w64. It contains all the patches based on Qt 5.10.1. When doing fixes later on, I usually preserve the original patches and create a new branch, eg. 5.10.1-mingw-w64-fixes.

So in this case it would make sense to contribute directly there. To fix an existing patch, just create a fixup commit. This (unusual) fixup workflow aims to keep the number of additional changes as small as possbile.

To get the patches into the PKGBUILD files, the script devel/qt5/update-patches.sh is used.

Mass rebasing of Qt patches

This is always done by me. Please don't try to help here because it will only cause conflicts. However, the workflow is quite simple:

1. Run devel/qt5/rebase-patches.sh on all Qt repository forks or just devel/qt5/rebase-all-patches.sh
   • eg. rebase-patches.sh 5.11.0 5.10.1 fixes to create branch 5.11.0-mingw-w64 based on 5.10.1-mingw-w64-fixes
   • after fixing possible conflicts, run devel/qt5/continue-rebase-patches.sh
   • otherwise, that's it
2. Run devel/qt5/update-patches.sh or devel/qt5/update-all-patches.sh to update PKGBUILDs

Supported build and deployment tools for mingw-w64-qt5 packages

Currently, I test with qmake and CMake. With both build systems it is possible to use either the shared or the static libraries. Please read the comments in the PKGBUILD file itself and the pinned comments in the AUR for futher information.

There are also pkgconfig files, but those aren't really tested.

qbs and windeployqt currently don't work very well (see issues). Using mxedeployqt might be an alternative for windeployqt.