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+# Template file for 'mingw-w64-headers'
+_shortname=mingw-w64
+pkgname=$_shortname-headers
+_majversion=1.0
+_snapshot=20110523
+version=${_majversion}.$_snapshot
+distfiles="${SOURCEFORGE_SITE}/$_shortname/$_shortname/$_shortname-v$_majversion-snapshot-$_snapshot.tar.bz2"
+build_style=custom-install
+short_desc="mingw-w64 headers"
+maintainer="davehome <davehome@redthumb.info.tm>"
+homepage="http://mingw-w64.sourceforge.net/"
+license="Public Domain, BSD, LGPL, ZPL"
+checksum=12dc02c40cb2d28dd70aeea792fe998e29acfc614589ecf7508cd1fbb93a4154
+long_desc="
+ These headers are reviewed as to find open documentation available on the
+ internet -- without referencing existing properitery header-set of
+ Microsoft VC.
+
+ For API's, see general references on www.webtropy.com, google, and of course
+ the Microsoft MSDN2 references, which are freely available.
+
+ Additionally, this header set tries to provide most header names and their
+ content as defined by Microsoft -- while keeping compatible, as far as it is
+ possible, with POSIX source for gcc 4.3 and later."
+
+nostrip=yes
+noverifyrdeps=yes
+
+wrksrc=$_shortname-v$_majversion-$_snapshot/$pkgname
+
+_mingwprefix=/opt
+
+do_build()
+{
+	if [ "${xbps_machine}" = "x86_64" ]; then
+		_mingwtriplet="${xbps_machine}-w64-mingw32"
+		_build_args="--build=${xbps_machine}-unknown-linux-gnu"
+	else
+		_mingwtriplet="${xbps_machine}-w32-mingw32"
+		_build_args="--build=${xbps_machine}-pc-linux-gnu"
+	fi
+
+	./configure --prefix=${_mingwprefix} --bindir=${_mingwprefix}/bin \
+		${_build_args} --host=${_mingwtriplet} --with-sdk=all
+
+	make ${makejobs}
+}
+
+do_install()
+{
+	make DESTDIR=${DESTDIR} install
+}