On Mon, Jan 13, 2014, Peter Kümmel wrote: > What's mingw-w64's "state-of-the-art" way of cross compiling on Linux > (Ubuntu)?
As Ruben pointed out, you can use the binaries from your distribution. In the case of Ubuntu, you inherit the ones from Debian most probably. However that means it's going to lag quite a lot, especially if there is no corresponding maintainer on ubuntu's side. > Could Win-builds be used without learning a new build system? You will obviously have some learning to do but it's very small and straightforward. Build scripts are raw shell scripts which run "make install DESTDIR=/tmp/foo" and then create a tar archive from these files; there is a bit more but that is enough to cover 95% of cases. That said, you only need to know that if you plan on making packages. If you only want to use the binaries, you don't need to know anything besides the few commands which are on the main documentation page. By the way, binary compatibility between distributions on Linux is done through a chroot. It's very compatible and fast to install but it's less nice to work with (although you can script a few things and be fine). That's why the next version will also make it possible to build and use your own compiler binaries; the downside is that it will take more time to build. I've already started working on that and it should be available in a few days. Regards, Adrien Nader ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Mingw-w64-public mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public
