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Cross compiling 4tH:
and running it:
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, you should ensure that your system meets mingw-cross-env's requirements. You probably need to install some stuff.
When everything is fine, download the latest release:
wget http://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/mingw-cross-env/mingw-cross-env-X.Y.tar.gz
and unpack the tarball:
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-env. 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-env. Now it depends on what you actually want – or need.
If you choose to enter:
make
you're in for a long wait, because it compiles a lot of packages. 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 $PATH:
export PATH=/where mingw-cross-env is installed/usr/bin:$PATH
Note that any compiler related environment variables (like $CC, $LDFLAGS, etc.) may spoil your compiling pleasure, so be sure to delete or disable those.
Congratulations! You're ready to cross compile anything you like.
If you use the Autotools, all you have to do is:
./configure --host=i686-pc-mingw32
make
Don't worry about a warning like this:
configure: WARNING: If you wanted to set the --build type, don't use --host. If a cross compiler is detected then cross compile mode will be used.
Everything will be just fine.
If you have a Qt application, all you have to do is:
i686-pc-mingw32-qmake
make
If you are using Qt plugins such as database drivers or graphics plugins, you should also have a look at the Qt documentation about static plugins.
If you have a handwritten Makefile, you probably will have to make a few adjustments to it:
CC=$(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:
make CROSS=i686-pc-mingw32-
That's it!
If you need further assistance, feel free to join the project mailing list where you'll get in touch with the mingw-cross-env developers and other users.
This release adds support for many new packages: flac, libmad, libsndfile, sdl_net, speex, postgresql, freetds, openssl, plotutils, taglib, lcms, freeglut, xerces and zziplib.
Almost all packages are updated to their latest version.
In addition to the libraries some command line tools such as psql.exe are built, too.
The placements of logfiles, as well as many other build details, have been improved.
To obtain the current development version, install Mercurial and run:
hg clone http://hg.savannah.nongnu.org/hgweb/mingw-cross-env mingw-cross-env
To retrieve updates, run:
hg pull -u
You can also browse the web repository.
In addition, feel free to join the project mailing list.
Mingw-cross-env requires a recent Unix system where the following components are installed:
| Bash | |
| Bzip2 | |
| LibC for 32-bit | |
| GCC (gcc, g++) | |
| GNU Make | ≥ 3.81 |
| GNU Sed | |
| OpenSSL | |
| Patch | |
| Perl | |
| SCons | ≥ 0.98 |
| UnZip | |
| Wget |
Detailed installation instructions for various systems follow.
aptitude install -R bash bzip2 g++ make sed openssl \
patch perl scons unzip wget
On 64-bit Debian, install also:
aptitude install -R g++-multilib
pkg_add -r bash gmake gsed perl scons unzip wget
On 64-bit FreeBSD, there are open issues with the NSIS package.
pacman-g2 -S bash bzip2 gcc make sed openssl \
patch perl scons unzip wget
On 64-bit Frugalware, there are open issues with the NSIS package.
Install Xcode and MacPorts, then run:
sudo port install gmake gsed scons wget
As of September 2009, MacOS 10.6 fails to build a vanilla GCC, let alone a GCC cross compiler. As long as this serious defect persists in MacOS, mingw-cross-env will be completely unable to work there.
First, install all requirements that already ship with Solaris:
pfexec pkg install SUNWgcc SUNWgmake SUNWgsed SUNWgzip \
SUNWlibm SUNWgpch SUNWunzip SUNWwget
Then download and install SCons by hand:
wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/scons/scons-1.2.0.tar.gz tar -xzf scons-1.2.0.tar.gz cd scons-1.2.0 pfexec python setup.py install
All build commands also download the packages if necessary.
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This release adds support for Qt, VMime and libmng.
The target triplet is updated to i686-pc-mingw32.
OpenMP support is enabled in GCC.
Almost all packages are updated to their latest version.
This release comes with a better look & feel by providing a highlevel overview of the build process.
The detailed build messages are stored into separate log files for each package, so parallel builds don't intermix them anymore.
The download URLs of SourceForge packages are adjusted to ensure that the selected SourceForge mirror is really used and not circumvalented via HTTP redirects to other mirrors.
Almost all packages are updated to their latest version.
The whole mingw-cross-env project has moved to Savannah. So all URIs have changed, but the old URIs redirect to the new locations seamlessly.
Everyone is invited to join the freshly created project mailing list.
This release provides an improved version recognition for SourceForge packages. SourceForge changed their page layout in a way that makes it much harder to identify the current version of a package.
Additionally, almost all packages are updated to their latest version.
This release contains some portability fixes which allow it to run on a wider range of systems such as Frugalware.
The documentation and website are completely revised.
New packages such as CppUnit, libUsb, NSIS, Popt, SQLite and Theora are supported.
Almost all packages are updated to their latest version.
A new command "make download" is implemented.
This release fixes a download error caused by the MinGW project. They suddenly changed the names of their source tarballs. That sort of thing should never happen!
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.