Support MSYS2 distro for Windows

[podsvirov]

Problem

luanti-org/docs.luanti.org#210

Solutions

Just announse this (see below).

Alternatives

If you prefer use package manager, you can install Luanti from MSYS2 distro (both luanti.exe and luantiserver.exe available).

Additional context

No response

[wsor4035]

i transfered this issue over, as it should be here to get official approval/listing on the downloads page

[mark-wiemer]

@podsvirov I'm new to MSYS2 packages but familiar with package managers as a whole. Who published this package? The description mentions infinite world where official docs are often very clear about the limited world size (62K blocks per side). Makes me think this was published externally?

The challenge is making sure the core team has capacity to maintain publishing this package. Is there any continuous integration pipeline step for publishing here?

[mark-wiemer]

Ah, I see you published it yourself :) ref https://github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages/commits/master/mingw-w64-luanti

[podsvirov]

The description mentions infinite world where official docs are often very clear about the limited world size (62K blocks per side)

Packages description copied from similar ArchLinux package, but we can change it.

[mark-wiemer]

Yeah, it should be changed. Not sure what to change it to. But we should focus on the main issue: this isn't an officially-maintained build method yet, we need to work with core contributors to get their endorsement before adding it to the main site

[wsor4035]

cc @sfan5 for input, since you do most of the windows stuff for luanti

[podsvirov]

Yeah, it should be changed. Not sure what to change it to

May be change Multiplayer infinite-world block sandbox game to Is a free open-source voxel game engine with easy modding and game creation?

[sfan5]

cc @sfan5 for input, since you do most of the windows stuff for luanti

Probably few people actually use MSYS2 but if the build is fine¹ we can list it for completeness.

¹ criteria:

• correctly named ("Luanti")
• minetest_game not packaged
• core features enabled (sound, gettext, luajit)
• it works with no usability issues

[podsvirov]

In my mind, the luanti package:

• correctly named ("Luanti")
• minetest_game not packaged
• core features enabled (sound, gettext, luajit)
• it works with no usability issues