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    <title>MinGW cross compiling environment</title>

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<h1>MinGW cross compiling environment</h1>

    <p>
    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. All necessary source packages
    are downloaded automatically.
    </p>

    <p>
    The Makefile is designed to run on any Unix system.
    </p>

    <p>
    Project website: <a href="http://www.profv.de/mingw_cross_env/"
                             >http://www.profv.de/mingw_cross_env/</a>
    </p>

<h2>News</h2>

    <dl>

    <dt>2009-04-06 - Release 2.5</dt>
    <dd>
        <p>
        <a href="http://www.profv.de/mingw_cross_env/mingw_cross_env-2.5.tar.gz">Download</a> |
        <a href="http://www.profv.de/mingw_cross_env/hgweb.cgi?cl=2.5">Changelog</a>
        </p>

        <p>
        This release fixes a download error caused by the MinGW project.
        They suddenly changed the names of their source tarballs.
        <a href="http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI">That sort of thing should never happen!</a>
        </p>

        <p>
        This release also contains some bugfixes
        which allow it to run on a wider range of systems.
        </p>

        <p>
        All downloaded files are now
        verified by their SHA-1 checksums.
        </p>

        <p>
        New versions of various packages are supported.
        </p>
    </dd>

    </dl>

<h2>Tutorials</h2>

    <ul>
    <li>
        (outdated) <a href="http://wiki.njh.eu/Win32_Cross_Compiling_Tutorial">Win32 Cross Compiling Tutorial</a>
        by Hans Bezemer
    </li>
    </ul>

<h2>For Developers</h2>

    <ul>
    <li>
        <a href="http://www.profv.de/mingw_cross_env/hgweb.cgi">Web Repository</a>
    </li>
    <li>
        Install
        <a href="http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/">Mercurial</a>
        and run:
        <pre>hg clone http://www.profv.de/mingw_cross_env/hgweb.cgi mingw_cross_env</pre>
    </li>
    </ul>

<h2>Features</h2>

    <ul>
    <li>
        easy to adapt and to extend
    </li>
    <li>
        builds many free libraries in addition to the cross compiler
    </li>
    <li>
        can also build just a subset of the packages,
        and automatically builds their dependencies
    </li>
    <li>
        downloads all needed packages
        and verifies them by their checksums
    </li>
    <li>
        is able to update the version numbers of all packages automatically
    </li>
    <li>
        directly uses source packages,
        thus ensuring the whole build mechanism is transparent
    </li>
    <li>
        allows inter-package and intra-package parallel builds
        whenever possible
    </li>
    <li>
        creates libraries to be linked statically, no DLL hell
    </li>

    </ul>

<h2>Prerequisites</h2>

    <dl>

    <dt>Linux</dt>
    <dd>
        Install GCC and GNU Make (&gt;= 3.81),
        everything else is usually already there.
    </dd>

    <dt>Minimal Debian</dt>
    <dd>
        Create a minimal Debian system with
        <a href="http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/426">debootstrap</a>,
        then run:
        <pre>aptitude install -R g++ make openssl unzip bzip2 patch</pre>
    </dd>

    <dt>FreeBSD</dt>
    <dd>
        <pre>pkg_add -r bash gmake gsed wget unzip perl</pre>
    </dd>

    <dt>MacOS X</dt>
    <dd>
        Install
        <a href="http://developer.apple.com/TOOLS/xcode/">Xcode</a>
        and
        <a href="http://www.macports.org/">MacPorts</a>,
        then run:
        <pre>sudo port install gmake gsed wget</pre>
    </dd>

    </dl>

<h2>Usage</h2>

    <dl class="usage">

    <dt>make</dt>

        <dd>
        build all packages,
        non-parallel
        </dd>

    <dt>make foo bar</dt>

        <dd>
        build packages "foo", "bar" and their dependencies,
        non-parallel
        </dd>

    <dt>make foo bar -j 4 JOBS=2</dt>

        <dd>
        build packages "foo", "bar" and their dependencies,
        where up to 4 packages are build in parallel,
        each with up to 2 compiler processes running in parallel
        </dd>

    <dt>make strip</dt>

        <dd>
        strip all package builds and remove unnecessary files
        </dd>

    <dt>make clean</dt>

        <dd>
        remove all package builds
        &#x2013; use with caution!
        </dd>

    <dt>make clean-pkg</dt>

        <dd>
        remove all unused package files,
        handy after a successful "make update"
        </dd>

    <dt>make update</dt>

        <dd>
        update the version numbers of all packages,
        download the new versions and note their checksums
        &#x2013; use with caution!
        </dd>

    <dt>make dist</dt>

        <dd>
        build a source distribution tarball
        </dd>

    </dl>

<h2>List of Packages</h2>

    <table>
    <!-- begin of package list -->
    <!-- end of package list -->
    </table>

<h2>Copyright</h2>

    <p>Authors:</p>
    <ul class="authors">
        <li>Volker Grabsch &lt;vog@notjusthosting.com&gt;</li>
        <li>Rocco Rutte</li>
        <li>Andreas Roever</li>
        <li>Martin Lambers</li>
        <li>Tony Theodore</li>
    </ul>

    <p>
    Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
    a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
    "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
    without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
    distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
    permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject
    to the following conditions:
    </p>

    <p>
    The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
    included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
    THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
    EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
    MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
    IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY
    CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT,
    TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE
    SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
    </p>

<h2>See also</h2>

    <ul>
    <li>
        <a href="http://www.sandroid.org/imcross/">IMCROSS</a>
        is another project with a very similar goal.
    </li>
    </ul>

<h2>History</h2>

    <dl>

    <dt>2009-03-08 - Release 2.4</dt>
    <dd>
        <p>
        <a href="http://www.profv.de/mingw_cross_env/mingw_cross_env-2.4.tar.gz">Download</a> |
        <a href="http://www.profv.de/mingw_cross_env/hgweb.cgi?cl=2.4">Changelog</a>
        </p>

        <p>
        This release provides many new libraries such as
        wxWidgets, GTK+ and OpenEXR.
        </p>

        <p>
        In addition, new versions of various packages
        are supported.
        </p>
    </dd>

    <dt>2009-02-09 - Release 2.3</dt>
    <dd>
        <p>
        <a href="http://www.profv.de/mingw_cross_env/mingw_cross_env-2.3.tar.gz">Download</a> |
        <a href="http://www.profv.de/mingw_cross_env/hgweb.cgi?cl=2.3">Changelog</a>
        </p>

        <p>
        This release fixes some serious build problems on FreeBSD and MacOS-X.
        </p>

        <p>
        The Makefile has a new target "clean-pkg"
        and allows to be called from a separate build directory
        via "make -f .../Makefile".
        </p>

        <p>
        Some new versions of the packages are supported,
        especially GCC-4.3 by switching from MinGW GCC to
        <a href="http://www.tdragon.net/recentgcc/">TDM-GCC</a>.
        </p>
    </dd>

    <dt>2009-01-31 - Release 2.2<dt>
    <dd>
        <p>
        <a href="http://www.profv.de/mingw_cross_env/mingw_cross_env-2.2.tar.gz">Download</a> |
        <a href="http://www.profv.de/mingw_cross_env/hgweb.cgi?cl=2.2">Changelog</a>
        </p>

        <p>
        This release fixes some minor build problems.
        </p>

        <p>
        It also supports some new packages and
        some newer versions of the already supported packages.
        </p>

        <p>
        Parallelization is now disabled by default.
        </p>
    </dd>

    <dt>2008-12-13 - Release 2.1</dt>
    <dd>
        <p>
        <a href="http://www.profv.de/mingw_cross_env/mingw_cross_env-2.1.tar.gz">Download</a> |
        <a href="http://www.profv.de/mingw_cross_env/hgweb.cgi?cl=2.1">Changelog</a>
        </p>

        <p>
        This release fixes a download error caused by the GDAL project.
        They suddenly changed their download URLs.
        <a href="http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI">That sort of thing should never happen!</a>
        </p>

        <p>
        In addition, some newer versions of various packages are supported.
        </p>

        <p>
        There is also a small compatibility fix for OS X.
        </p>
    </dd>

    <dt>2008-11-10 - Release 2.0</dt>
    <dd>
        <p>
        <a href="http://www.profv.de/mingw_cross_env/mingw_cross_env-2.0.tar.gz">Download</a> |
        <a href="http://www.profv.de/mingw_cross_env/hgweb.cgi?cl=2.0">Changelog</a>
        </p>

        <p>
        The shell script has been rewritten as Makefile
        and supports partial builds and parallel builds.
        </p>

        <p>
        As usual,
        this release also supports some new packages and
        some newer versions of the already supported packages.
        </p>
    </dd>

    <dt>2008-01-11 - Release 1.4</dt>
    <dd>
        <p>
        <a href="http://www.profv.de/mingw_cross_env/mingw_cross_env-1.4.tar.gz">Download</a> |
        <a href="http://www.profv.de/mingw_cross_env/hgweb.cgi?cl=1.4">Changelog</a>
        </p>

        <p>
        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.
        </p>

        <p>
        At the <a href="http://www.fefe.de/nowindows/">request of its author</a>,
        libowfat is no longer supported from this release on.
        </p>

        <p>
        The script now uses a specific SourceForge mirror
        instead of randomly chosen ones,
        because the download phase
        often stumbled on some very slow mirrors.
        </p>
    </dd>

    <dt>2007-12-23 - Release 1.3</dt>
    <dd>
        <p>
        <a href="http://www.profv.de/mingw_cross_env/mingw_cross_env-1.3.tar.gz">Download</a> |
        <a href="http://www.profv.de/mingw_cross_env/hgweb.cgi?cl=1.3">Changelog</a>
        </p>

        <p>
        A sudden change in the download URLs of GEOS
        made the automatic download fail.
        <a href="http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI">Such changes should never happen!</a>
        But it happened,
        and this quick release is an attempt to limit the damage.
        </p>

        <p>
        This release also supports some newer versions of the libraries
        including support for fontconfig-2.5.0.
        </p>
    </dd>

    <dt>2007-12-13 - Release 1.2</dt>
    <dd>
        <p>
        <a href="http://www.profv.de/mingw_cross_env/mingw_cross_env-1.2.tar.gz">Download</a> |
        <a href="http://www.profv.de/mingw_cross_env/hgweb.cgi?cl=1.2">Changelog</a>
        </p>

        <p>
        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.
        </p>
    </dd>

    <dt>2007-07-24 - Release 1.1</dt>
    <dd>
        <p>
        <a href="http://www.profv.de/mingw_cross_env/mingw_cross_env-1.1.tar.gz">Download</a> |
        <a href="http://www.profv.de/mingw_cross_env/hgweb.cgi?cl=1.1">Changelog</a>
        </p>

        <p>
        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.
        </p>

        <p>
        Thanks to Rocco Rutte who contributed many code snippets.
        </p>
    </dd>

    <dt>2007-06-19 - Release 1.0</dt>
    <dd>
        <p>
        <a href="http://www.profv.de/mingw_cross_env/mingw_cross_env-1.0.tar.gz">Download</a> |
        <a href="http://www.profv.de/mingw_cross_env/hgweb.cgi?cl=1.0">Changelog</a>
        </p>

        <p>
        This first release has been created in a 7-day-sprint.
        </p>
    </dd>

    <dt>2007-06-12 - Project start</dt>
    <dd>
    </dd>

    </dl>

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