Dear GnuWin32 Developers,
I'm proud to announce my inofficial Debian packages of MinGW
development libraries for cross compiling.
Using these packages in addition to the already existing "mingw32"
Debian package, one is able to cross compile C/C++ applications
and libraries under Debian without much hassle:
http://www.profv.de/debian/
I created them using your GnuWin32 library development packages:
<PACKAGE>-<VERSION>-lib.zip
Thanks a lot! Without your great work this would have been much
harder for me.
To automate the creation progress I wrote some helper scripts
which I call "any2deb scripts":
https://dev.njh6.de/wiki/index.php/Any2deb
The script "gnuwin32-lib2deb" does the main work: It downloads
the package's GnuWin32 homepage:
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/<PACKAGE>.htm
from which it takes the current version number, the summary and
the description text. Next it looks at
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/downlinks/<PACKAGE>-lib-zip.php
to download the current development package: <PACKAGE>-<VERSION>-lib.zip
Finally it creates a set of standard Debian files and builds a
Debian package. Of course, the package description of these Debian
packages link to the GnuWin32 project.
Obviously, in a cross compiling environment, there is no need for
native programs (i.e. EXE files), so I just took the library
packages of GnuWin32:
fdlibm
giflib
jpeg
libarchive
libart_lgpl
libconfig
libgw32c
libiconv
libintl
libopennet
libpaper
libpng
libtool
libungif
libutf8
libwmf
libxmi
pdflib-lite
t1lib
tiff
urt
zlib
The script "gnuwin32-fetchlibs" helps to find all library packages
and creates a template for an own shell script which calls
"gnuwin32-lib2deb" for each package. This enables me to provide
these packages in a kind of mass production. In the first run,
only c. 15 packages were built properly. After refining my scripts
ever and ever again, more and more packages built successfully,
up to these mentioned 22 packages.
Note that the list is incomplete as there are missing two packages
for some reasons.
glibc:
I haven't been able to find any glibc development package.
libw11:
The libw11 development package doesn't contain include/* files.
Maybe you'll able to fix them, to I could provide 24 packages. :-)
Also note that these packages are inofficial and independent from
the Debian project. I used your prefabricated binary packages
instead of building from source, which is strongly discouraged
by the Debian Policy.
Maybe you never intended to support cross compiling platforms, but
this just happened. Your consistent package design made it possible
for me to easily adopt it in just about 2 days of work.
Again, thank you!
I'd be glad if you link to my Debian repository or at least to
the any2deb project, because there are probably other people
looking for binaries for their cross compiling project. They
could profit from my work instead of having to work out their
own solution.
Greets,
Volker Grabsch
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