On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 08:19 -0400, Dan McMahill wrote:
> Peter Clifton wrote:
> > On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 23:27 +0000, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
> >> On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:28:10 -0400, Dan McMahill wrote:
> >>
> >>> - I did all this under cygwin.
> >> Do you think a real cross compile is no way to go?
> > 
> > Its almost possible, but getting the autotools to work their magic is
> > hard.
> 
> In that case, I've done something wrong in the setup.  I can see about 
> setting up a cross-compile toolchain and see how it goes.  Generally 
> what you have to watch out for is that autoconf tests which need to 
> actually run a target program are of course out of luck.  Others should 
> work though.

Mainly it was guile's autoconf which was a pain for cross compiling. The
other grief is that the windows libraries which use pkg-config don't
play well out of the box.

I can't recall exactly, but I vaguely remember that the windows version
of pkg-config does something strange with paths (fixing them up as it
runs), (or are the .pc files fixed up on install?). Certainly I couldn't
take the .pc files straight from the GTK downloads and use them without
fixing paths inside the files.

You also have to ensure you don't inadvertently link against your system
native packages.

-- 
Peter Clifton

Electrical Engineering Division,
Engineering Department,
University of Cambridge,
9, JJ Thomson Avenue,
Cambridge
CB3 0FA

Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!)



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