This Makefile compiles a MinGW cross compiler and cross compiles many free libraries such as GD and SDL. Thus, it provides a nice MinGW cross compiling environment which
First, download the latest release and unpack the tarball:
wget http://www.profv.de/mingw_cross_env/mingw_cross_env-X.Y.tar.gz tar -xzvf mingw_cross_env-X.Y.tar.gz
If you don't mind installing it in your home directory, just skip the following step and go straight to step 3.
Now you should save any previous installation of the MinGW cross compiling environment. Assuming you've installed it under /opt/mingw (any other directory will do as well), you should execute the following commands:
su mv /opt/mingw /opt/mingw.old exit
Then you need to transfer the entire directory to its definitive location. We will assume again you use /opt/mingw, but feel free to use any other directory if you like.
su
mv mingw_cross_env-X.Y /opt/mingw
exit
We're almost done. Just change to your newly created directory and get going:
cd /opt/mingw
Enter the directory where you've unpacked the MinGW cross compiling environment. Now it depends on what you actually want – or need.
If you choose to enter:
make
you're in for a long wait, because the MinGW cross compiling environment compiles a lot of stuff. On the other hand it doesn't require any intervention, so you're free to do whatever you like – like watch a movie or go for a night on the town. When it's done you'll find that you've installed a very capable Win32 cross compiler onto your system.
If you only need the most basic tools you can also use:
make gcc
and add any additional packages you need later on. You can also supply a host of packages on the command line, e.g.:
make gtk lua libidn
You'll always end up with a consistent cross compiler environment.
After you're done it just needs a little post-installation. Edit your .bashrc script in order to change $PATH:
export PATH=/where MinGW cross compiler is installed/usr/bin:$PATH
BTW, note that any compiler related environment variables (like $CC, $LDFLAGS, etc.) may spoil your compiling pleasure, so be sure to delete or disable those.
You probably will have to make a few adjustments to your Makefile:
CC=$(CROSS)gcc LD=$(CROSS)ld AR=$(CROSS)ar
You may have to add a few others, depending on your project. Then, all you have to do is type this:
make CROSS="i386-mingw32msvc-"
If you're using configure, all you have to do is:
./configure --host="i386-mingw32msvc"
make
That's it!
Don't let any warnings put you off. A warning like this is absolutely harmless:
configure: WARNING: If you wanted to set the --build type, don't use --host. If a cross compiler is detected then cross compile mode will be used.
Everything will be just fine.
To obtain the current development version, install Mercurial and run:
hg clone http://www.profv.de/mingw_cross_env/hgweb.cgi mingw_cross_env
You can also browse the Web Repository.
aptitude install -R g++ make scons openssl unzip bzip2 patch
pkg_add -r bash gmake gsed wget unzip perl
sudo port install gmake gsed wget scons
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This release also contains some bugfixes which allow it to run on a wider range of systems.
All downloaded files are now verified by their SHA-1 checksums.
New versions of various packages are supported.
This release provides many new libraries such as wxWidgets, GTK+ and OpenEXR.
In addition, new versions of various packages are supported.
This release fixes some serious build problems on FreeBSD and MacOS-X.
The Makefile has a new target "clean-pkg" and allows to be called from a separate build directory via "make -f .../Makefile".
Some new versions of the packages are supported, especially GCC-4.3 by switching from MinGW GCC to TDM-GCC.
This release fixes some minor build problems.
It also supports some new packages and some newer versions of the already supported packages.
Parallelization is now disabled by default.
This release fixes a download error caused by the GDAL project. They suddenly changed their download URLs. That sort of thing should never happen!
In addition, some newer versions of various packages are supported.
There is also a small compatibility fix for OS X.
The shell script has been rewritten as Makefile and supports partial builds and parallel builds.
As usual, this release also supports some new packages and some newer versions of the already supported packages.
This release now includes a tutorial by Hans Bezemer and has improved compile options of FLTK. As usual, it supports some newer versions of the libraries.
At the request of its author, libowfat is no longer supported from this release on.
The script now uses a specific SourceForge mirror instead of randomly chosen ones, because the download phase often stumbled on some very slow mirrors.
A sudden change in the download URLs of GEOS made the automatic download fail. Such changes should never happen! But it happened, and this quick release is an attempt to limit the damage.
This release also supports some newer versions of the libraries including support for fontconfig-2.5.0.
This release is a switch from gcc-3 to gcc-4. It also supports a new library and some newer versions of the already supported libraries.
This release is the result of the public attention the release 1.0 got. It contains many improvements suggested by its first users, and adds support for many new libraries.
Thanks to Rocco Rutte who contributed many code snippets.
This first release has been created in a 7-day-sprint.