Issues with mingw32 (Linux to Windows cross-compiler)

Callum Lerwick seg at haxxed.com
Sat Apr 19 03:15:48 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 21:40 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> Debian have packaged mingw32 as a cross-compiler so you can target
> Windows as an embedded platform, building *.DLLs and *.EXEs from your
> Linux box:
> 
>   http://packages.debian.org/source/sid/mingw32
> 
> There's already an RPM package for this for Fedora and in my limited
> testing it seems to work:
> 
>   http://mirzam.it.vu.nl/mingw/
> 
> HOWEVER ... This package can't be built directly from source because
> it has a circular dependency.  As described on that page:

For what its worth, I needed a cross compiler for a project so I spent
quite a bit of time and effort building up one. I don't really know what
I'm doing as far as building cross toolchains so I probably Did It
Wrong, and there's still a lot of rough edges, but it works and got the
job done.

http://www.haxxed.com/rpms/

Note that gcc by itself is pretty much useless, most of the effort
actually went in to building up a stack of fundamental libraries so that
you can actually DO something with it.

It would be a shame for all my effort to go to waste, but I alone can't
maintain this whole thing in Fedora...
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