On 13.01.2014 18:21, Adrien Nader wrote: > 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.
OK, seems I was confused by some mails about a yy??? tool. > > 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. I like the idea to build everything from scratch. Do you know www.buildroot.org ? It's Makefile based, with embedded systems as targets, not sure if win32 would be to exotic. > > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
