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| author | Tony Theodore <tonyt@logyst.com> | 2016-07-15 09:03:37 (GMT) |
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| committer | Tony Theodore <tonyt@logyst.com> | 2016-07-16 06:53:58 (GMT) |
| commit | 109e905f56492c3a67248be800e9e668d0a96c15 (patch) | |
| tree | b627adf0c0202c42b769511b4ebce3c620a2a1dc /plugins | |
| parent | bc77cb384ecef7d876acb84c9e198ce01648f492 (diff) | |
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host-toolchain plugin: improve README
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| -rw-r--r-- | plugins/examples/host-toolchain/README.md | 47 |
1 files changed, 28 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/plugins/examples/host-toolchain/README.md b/plugins/examples/host-toolchain/README.md index 6b376bf..da27d42 100644 --- a/plugins/examples/host-toolchain/README.md +++ b/plugins/examples/host-toolchain/README.md @@ -25,6 +25,29 @@ Comparing files test-gcc-host.exe and TEST-PTHREADS-LIBGOMP.EXE FC: no differences encountered ``` +#### CMake + +``` +make cmake-host MXE_PLUGIN_DIRS=plugins/examples/host-toolchain/ +``` + +CMake defaults to Visual Studio generators and additional configuration is +required for [MinGW or MSYS Makefiles][cmake-generators]. MinGW uses `cmd.exe` +and requires `mingw32-make`, MSYS uses `make` and requires `/bin/sh`. The +latter is recommended for further investigation since it's closest to the +normal environment MXE expects. See the following projects for shells and +terminal emulators: + + - [MSYS2][msys2] + - [Git for Windows][git-win] - uses MSYS2 + - [ConEmu][conemu] - usable terminal + - [cmder][cmder] - bundles ConEmu and Git + +#### Make + +Make is difficult to cross-compile so it is downloaded from the [source +recommended by the GNU Make team](http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/make.git/tree/README.W32.template). + #### Qt5 tools (`qmake.exe`, `rcc.exe`, etc.) ``` @@ -32,7 +55,7 @@ make qt5-host-tools MXE_PLUGIN_DIRS=plugins/examples/host-toolchain/ ``` This will build `qtbase`, cross-compile the toolchain and qt tools, and -download `make` binaries from the source recommended by the GNU Make project. +download `make` binaries. On a windows machine, execute `usr\{target}\qt5\test-qt5-host-tools\test-qt5-host-tools.bat` to build and @@ -41,24 +64,6 @@ confirm the normal `qt` test with the cross-compiled `qtbase` libraries. **N.B.** shared `gcc` doesn't work with the test program. To build a shared test, use the additional option `gcc-host_CONFIGURE_OPTS=--disable-shared`. -#### CMake - -``` -make cmake-host MXE_PLUGIN_DIRS=plugins/examples/host-toolchain/ -``` - -CMake defaults to Visual Studio generators and additional configuration is -required for [MinGW or MSYS Makefiles][cmake-generators]. MinGW uses `cmd.exe` -and requires `mingw32-make`, MSYS uses `make` and requires `/bin/sh`. The -latter is recommended for further investigation since it's closest to the -normal environment MXE expects. See the following projects for shells and -terminal emulators: - - - [MSYS2](https://msys2.github.io/) - - [Git for Windows](https://git-for-windows.github.io/) - uses MSYS2 - - [ConEmu](https://conemu.github.io/) - usable terminal - - [cmder](http://cmder.net/) - bundles ConEmu and Git - Why? ---- @@ -70,3 +75,7 @@ running a Linux VM on Windows). [cmake-generators]:https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/manual/cmake-generators.7.html +[cmder]:http://cmder.net/ +[conemu]:https://conemu.github.io/ +[git-win]:https://git-for-windows.github.io/ +[msys2]:https://msys2.github.io/ |