setup-msys2 VS tuxmath

/? mingw: https://github.com/search?q=mingw&type=repositories

msys2/MINGW-packages: https://github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages ; [..., SDL, gles, glfw, egl, glbinding, cargo-c, gstreamer, gtest, cppunit, gtk4, icu, jack2, gnome-text-editor, gtksourceview, kdiff3, libgit2, libusb, libressl, libsodium, libserialport, libslirp, hugo]

msys2/setup-msys2: https://github.com/msys2/setup-msys2:

> setup-msys2 is a GitHub Action (GHA) to setup an MSYS2 environment (i.e. MSYS, MINGW32, MINGW64, UCRT64, CLANG32, CLANG64 and/or CLANGARM64 shells)

Though, if you're writing a 3d app/game, e.g. panda3d already builds for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

panda3d > Building applications: https://docs.panda3d.org/1.11/python/distribution/building-b... :

mstorsjo/llvm-mingw:

Other pages provide complementary information on that same topic.

Another thing I appreciated was the explanation of MSYS2's environments:

https://www.msys2.org/docs/environments/

Being able to painlessly switch away from MSVCRT to UCRT was helpful in solving some UTF-8 difficulties I was experiencing at the time.

Package management with pacman is rather pleasant, and the setup-msys2 GitHub Action makes it simple to provide your GHA workflow with the tools and libs you want:

https://www.msys2.org/docs/package-management/

https://packages.msys2.org/queue

https://github.com/msys2/setup-msys2

> Actions reduce workflow steps by providing reusabe[sic] “code” for common tasks. To run an action, you include the uses keyword pointing to a GitHub repo with the pattern {owner}/{repo}@{ref} or {owner}/{repo}/{path}@{ref} if it’s in a subdirectory. A ref can be a branch, tag, or SHA.

Aside from the typo, I wonder how many packages could be backdoored at once, if an action maintainer went rogue, seeing as there's no pinning for actions by default, and (according to https://github.com/msys2/setup-msys2/blob/main/HACKING.md) moving a tag is the default way to push updates to an action. (Interestingly get-cmake/run-cmake/run-vcpkg are all operated by the same person.)

https://github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages/issues/21325

https://github.com/panda3d/panda3d

tuxmath/mingw/ has CodeBlocks build config with mingw32 fwics: https://github.com/tux4kids/tuxmath/blob/master/mingw/tuxmat...

Code::Blocks:

TuxMath and TuxTyping are FOSS games written with SDL.

Giving your experience with porting Wolfenstein 3D SDL to emscripten, would it be easier to rewrite TuxMath given the exercise XML files or port it to WASM/emscripten (and emscripten-forge)?

Notably, the TuxMath RPM currently segfaults with recent Fedora but the Flatpak (which presumably statically-ships it's own copy of SDL) does work fine. https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.tux4kids.tuxmath https://github.com/tux4kids/tuxmath

(Other someday priorities: Looking at SensorCraft, wanting to port it to (JupyterLite WASM) notebooks w/ jupyter-book)

So far, I have found Tuxmath and Qmentat, but they have not been updated since 2018 and 2013, respectively. Geogebra and Sagemath are popular as well, but they seem to be more for teachers and advanced learners than for beginners.