Re: [Ekiga-devel-list] Cross-compiling ekiga for win32

[Eugen Dedu <Eugen Dedu pu-pm univ-fcomte fr>]

Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> Eugen Dedu on 06/25/2009 02:15 PM wrote:
> > Is it difficult?  Are there only 5 if-s to be declared inside Makefile
> > or it is more complicated?
>
>
> No. Here's a primitive example:
>
> OS_TYPE := $(shell uname -s)
>
> ifneq (,$(findstring MINGW,$(OS_TYPE)))
> BUILD_TARGET = WINDOWS
> endif
>
> This would set $BUILD_TARGET to WINDOWS if you were running make from a
> Windows OS using MinGW.
>
> This won't work though if you are attempting to build from a Windows
> command prompt. There is no "uname" command in Windows by default unless
> you put the MinGW tools in your %PATH% (not done by default).

There is something I do not understand.  It is not possible to compile 
ekiga from windows (cf. 
http://wiki.ekiga.org/index.php/Cross-compile_Win32#Understanding_the_cross-build_script)

So I meant to modify Makefile so that it can be used directly from 
debian and fedora, not from windows.

--
Eugen