Re: Compiling for Windows [Was: argv revisited]

["Andrew Robinson" <arobinson18 cox net>]

Thank you Lucas, for submitting this post. MXE seems very interesting and I
feel compelled to do some more research into it.

On 5/2/2016 at 3:36 AM, Lucas Levrel <llevrel yahoo fr> wrote:
> (copy to OP in case he's already unsubscribed, apologies for duplication 
> if he's not)
>
> Le 30 avril 2016, Andrew Robinson a écrit :
> > Now my new problem I had was either locating a Win32 version of GTK+
greater
> > than v3.18 or locating a version of libglib.dll greater than v2.40. It
isn't
> > going to happen. The GTK+ project itself does not support Win32 or Win64,
> > expecting the developer to install MSYS2 and then ... nothing. The GTK+
> > project gives no further instructions on what to do next. Getting the Linux
> > binaries for GTK+ in MSYS2 seems easy, but I don't want the Linux binaries,
I
> > want the Windows binaries. I would compile my own binaries for Windows but
> > there is little reliable and complete information out there on how to do it
> > and what is there isn't credible. From what I understand, compiling
binaries
> > for Win32 is a very time consuming and tedious project, so I knew if I had
any
> > problems compiling it, I would not receive any help from the GTK+ (or
probably
> > even the GNOME) community in resolving them.
>
> I'm not an expert programmer and when I wanted to compile for Windows the 
> software I developped in Linux, I couldn't achieve a satisfactory result 
> (using the -mwin32 or -mwindows flag gave either a clumsy additional 
> command window, or yielded an antivirus alert!).
>
> Then I found MinGW Cross Env, now called MXE (http://mxe.cc/). It compiled 
> my project with no effort at all. When you install it, it compiles the 
> cross-compiler and the libs you want, so this takes quite long, but with 
> no user intervention. Then all you have to do is add such lines in your 
> Linux-ready Makefile:
>
> # prepend all binaries with a later-defined prefix
> PKG_CONFIG=$(CROSS)pkg-config
> CXX=$(CROSS)g++
> LD=$(CROSS)ld
> AR=$(CROSS)ar
> STRIP=$(CROSS)strip
> ..
> # define the prefix in the rules targeting Windows
> myrule : CROSS=/path/to/bin/i686-pc-mingw32-
> myrule : ...
>
> HTH
>
> -- 
> Lucas Levrel