Add mingw-w64-dotnet

[iahung3]

Package name

mingw-w64-dotnet

Brief description of package

.NET is the free, open-source, cross-platform framework for building modern apps and powerful cloud services.

URL for package's homepage

https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/

Provide a basic test case to validate the package's functionality.

https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/

MINGW environments where you need the package

• MINGW64
• MINGW32
• UCRT64
• CLANG64
• CLANG32
• CLANGARM64

Are you willing to submit a PR?

No

[Kreijstal]

actually this would be nice we could then build powershell as well, I wonder if we could compile dotnet from mono?

[ZachBacon]

I've tried to build this, its more trouble than it's worth to try and build in MSYS2. Would require massive amount of patching.

[Kreijstal]

I've tried to build this, its more trouble than it's worth to try and build in MSYS2. Would require massive amount of patching.

because of path rewriting? or windows linux paths?

[ZachBacon]

I've tried to build this, its more trouble than it's worth to try and build in MSYS2. Would require massive amount of patching.

because of path rewriting? or windows linux paths?

A little bit of everything. On Windows, it expects also the visual studio build tools, so you'd have to patch that to use what MSYS2 requires.

[Kreijstal]

I've tried to build this, its more trouble than it's worth to try and build in MSYS2. Would require massive amount of patching.

because of path rewriting? or windows linux paths?

A little bit of everything. On Windows, it expects also the visual studio build tools, so you'd have to patch that to use what MSYS2 requires.

well of course!

[iahung3]

Reopened it. I know it's currently impossible, but let's not lose hope. What if, some time in the future, Microsoft would have a look at MSYS2 support? Very unlikely, but let's not lose hope 😆

[ZachBacon]

Reopened it. I know it's currently impossible, but let's not lose hope. What if, some time in the future, Microsoft would have a look at MSYS2 support? Very unlikely, but let's not lose hope 😆

Keep in mind. I never said it was impossible.

[Kreijstal]

Reopened it. I know it's currently impossible, but let's not lose hope. What if, some time in the future, Microsoft would have a look at MSYS2 support? Very unlikely, but let's not lose hope 😆

I think the best bet would be to start with dotnet 5 as it was still made with c++

[iahung3]

Can we build this version of Mono without building the whole .NET runtime?

#20547

[Kreijstal]

Can we build this version of Mono without building the whole .NET runtime?

#20547

you do not need to build the whole .NET runtime only the subset that is required to run the compiler so that dotnet bootstrap itself