Re: Glib cross complilation

[Emmanuel Thomas-Maurin <manutm007 gmail com>]

I think the command should be:
./configure --host=i586-mingw32msvc

On 08/10/2014 11:30 AM, Erik van Pienbroek wrote:
> narcisse doudieu siewe schreef op vr 01-08-2014 om 16:39 [+0100]:
>
> > I need to compile GLib 2.40 for the windows platform on my ubuntu
> > 14.04 so I use the following command: ./configure --host=i586-mingw32
> > but this fails with the following errors:
> > checking for i586-mingw32-windres... no
> > checking for windres... no
> > configure: error: * Could not find an implementation of windres in
> > your PATH
> > I wan to know if I can bypass windres because I notice that it is not
> > included in the /usr/i586-mingw32msvc/bin folder or if it is possible
> > to download it
> > Thank for your help.
>
> Hi,
>
> The ${host}-windres tool should be part of the binutils package
> belonging to the MinGW cross compiler. I don't know how this package is
> named on Ubuntu, but on Fedora and OpenSuSE it is part of the
> mingw32-binutils package. If it is missing from the Ubuntu
> (cross-compiled) binutils package you should get in contact with the
> package maintainer.
>
> Regards,
>
> Erik van Pienbroek

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Emmanuel Thomas-Maurin