Re: Let's get a new release out in the next week

On Wed, 22 Feb 2023 18:13:41 +0000, Geoff Westcott via xmltv-devel wrote:

> On Wed, 22 Feb 2023 17:51:27 +0000, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 4:10 PM Geoff Westcott via xmltv-devel
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > > I can try building it on GitHub (are these instructions still valid: http://wiki.xmltv.org/index.php/XMLTVWindowsBuild )
> > > or if you make a 32-bit build I can run it (on Win7-32), and see what happens.
> > 
> > I *think* one can (mostly) duplicate the existing windows
> > build section (call it windows-build-32bit?) and add
> > the following steps at the beginning:
> > 
> >       - name: uninstall existing strawberry perl
> >         run: choco uninstall strawberryperl
> > 
> >       - name: install 32-bit strawberry perl
> >         run: choco install strawberryperl --x86
> > 
> > and likely change the artifact name to something
> > like xmltv32.exe?
> > 
> > Maybe.  This is basically untested, and I have no
> > way to know if the result is properly 32-bit.
> 
> Thanks Gary - I'll give it a go.
> 
> Geoff


Well that might just have worked! I built "xmltv32.exe" and it signs itself as a 32-bit program.  :-)

It unpacks ok and a quick run on Win7Pro-32 ran ok. I'll give it a full test in the morning, and report back.

Geoff