Am 28.02.2017 um 11:15 schrieb Yale Zhang:
"but from my point of view there's not much to gain".
I think that's a fair assessment if you plan to do all your development on Windows. The main group who I imagine might prefer a cross compiler are developers who are already running a Linux distro and are primarily doing development on that platform, since it doesn't require Windows. Or even if they have Windows, they might prefer a Linux build environment without MSYS2's POSIX emulation.
Yeah, then I think we're on the same page here... Either way having an easy possibility to cross-compile would certainly not hurt.
Also, how about some nightly Windows builds for Inkscape? I think that would be easier to do on a Linux server with cross GCC than on Windows.
We could actually use AppVeyor for that. They have MSYS2 installed on theyr workers: https://www.appveyor.com/docs/installed-software/#mingw-msys-cygwin