Adapting FancyLibs from Debian 12 Bookworm to 13 Trixie, catching up MinGW 10, maybe MinGW 11
Introduction
About every 2 years Debian introduces a new release.
At the time I'm writing this Debian 13 Trixie had been released 2 days ago, 2025-08-09.
The following notes track the adaption of FancyLibs beeing adapted and released for this new Debian release and are based on similar priror lists like Adapting FancyLibs from Debian 11 Bullseye to 12 Bookworm,
MinGW has never been fully upgraded to Debian 12, we won’t upgrade that to Debian 13.
Adapting FancyLibs to new Debian Release
The steps per sub project are the same as described for "HelloWorld projects* in Adapting PBA to new Debian Release, with -o "arch|unix" (before resp. without MinGW adaption) or -o "arch|unix|9" after MinGW adaption.
Phase 1, FancyLibs arch/unix
Architecture remark: We’re trying to add arm64 support.
FancyLibs as well as most to all C++ libraries are developed as PBA-Category and Generation fancylibs-3.8, so existing setups can be maintained with fancylibs 3.7 from PBA-C. and G. fancylibs-3.
Because of circumstances we include some mingw-10 builds, i.e. Phase 3 of Adapting FancyLibs from Debian 11 Bullseye to 12 Bookworm, later eventually MinGW-9 to MinGW-10, along Phase 1 here.
Project (subdir) | Archs (-o parameter) | Remarks general | Status & Remarks Trixie resp. mingw targets | Release with Trixie-Build |
|---|---|---|---|---|
fancylog | arch|mingw-9|mingw-10 | OK, OK, OK | 1.0.4-1 | |
cute-headers | arch|mingw-9|mingw-10 | Data only | OK, OK, OK | 1.6.1-18 |
fancylibs | arch|mingw-9|mingw-10 | OK, OK, OK | 3.8.2-2 | |
fancydb | - | Unix only. | OK | 0.7.0-7 |
fancydrawing | arch|mingw-9 | OK, skipped for MinGW-10 | 0.6.3-8 | |
fancygpsdclient | arch|mingw-9|mingw-10 | OK, OK, OK | 0.4.3-14 | |
fancyhttpd | arch|mingw-9|mingw-10 | OK, OK, OK | 0.8.1-10 | |
fancylogd | arch|unix|mingw-9|mingw-10 | OK, OK, OK | 0.1.0-11 | |
fancypkcs11 | arch|unix mingw-9, mingw-10) | OK, OK, NOK (MinGW-10 build doesn’t work, we never released MinGW-9 neither, can be ignored?) | 0.4.1-8 | |
fancypcsc | arch|unix|mingw-9|mingw-10 | OK, OK, OK | 0.2.5-13 | |
fancymodbus | - | Unix only | OK | 0.2.4-7 |
fancysax | arch, mingw-9, mingw-10 | OK, OK, OK | 0.6.2-1 | |
(fancyqt6) | arch (mingw-10, mingw-11) | no demand yet | - | |
fancysane | - | Unix only | OK | 0.3.4-5 |
fancyssl-tools | arch|unix|mingw-9|mingw-10 | OK, OK, OK | 0.4.0-12 | |
fancylaunch | arch|unix|mingw-9|mingw-10 | OK (amd64 only, arm64 fails), OK, OK | 1.1.1-6 |
In Progress: Phase 2, MinGW-Pkg rebuilds (some of them anyway)
Disclaimer: The MinGW-Pkg generation does NOT refer to the version of the Mingw-W64 upstream project, but is raised with every Debian generation and includes newer version of the cross-built 3rd-party libraries.
Order based on mingw 6 rebuild order, but several parts have been dropped because they are now provided by Debian resp. QT, or not required for ITEG projects any more.
DO NOT USE BETA VERSIONS FOR MINGW PACKAGES!
Project (mingw-pkg subdir pattern) | Dep. | Version MinGW-10 mingw-pkg (upstream) | Version MinGW-11 mingw-pkg (upstream) | Trixie Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
mingw-w64-openssl | mingw-w64-zlib | 3.2.1-1 | 3.5.2-1 | OK |
mingw-w64-libiconv | mingw-w64-gcc-rt | 1.17-1 | 1.18-1 | OK |
mingw-w64-libxml2 | mingw-w64-libiconv | 2.12.6-1 | 2.12.7-1 (or use 2.12.10 or 2.14.5?) | NOT OK, TBC |
mingw-w64-gettext | mingw-w64-libxml2 | 0.22.5-1 | 0.23.1 (or use 0.23.2 or 0.26?) | TBD, waits on libxml2 |
mingw-w64-qt6 | - | -, replaced by Qt6 |
| n/a (ITEG changed directly to QT6) |
mingw-w64-jni-headers | - | 17.0.0-0 | 21.0.0-0 | OK |
Postponed, Phase 3: FancyLibs MinGW
In the recommended order for phase 3 …
Project (subdir) | Archs (-o parameter) | Version with MinGW-10 | Version with MinGW-11 | Remarks, Trixie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
fancylog |
| 1.0.4-1 |
| TBD |
cute-headers |
| 1.6.1-18 |
| TBD |
fancylibs |
| 3.8.2-2 |
| TBD |
fancygpsdclient |
| 0.4.3-14 |
| TBD |
fancyhttpd |
| 0.8.1-10 |
| TBD |
fancylogd |
| 0.1.0-11 |
| TBD |
fancypcsc |
| 0.2.5-13 |
| TBD |
fancysax |
| 0.6.2-1 |
| TBD |
fancyqt6 |
| TBD |
| TBD |
fancyssl-tools |
| 0.4.0-12 |
| TBD |
fancylaunch |
| 1.1.1-6 |
| TBD |