Re: [Vala] Cross-compiling with MinGW

[Evan Nemerson <evan coeus-group com>]

On Sun, 2012-06-17 at 00:33 +0200, Leszek Godlewski wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I'm on Debian, trying to cross-compile my Vala code using MinGW
> (gcc-mingw-w64 package) like this:
>
> CC=i686-w64-mingw32-gcc valac --pkg gtk+-3.0 --pkg cairo --pkg pango
> --pkg gee-1.0 -g --save-temps -o foo bar.vala
>
> However, the compiler complains about the unix-style pthread linking
> directive, which is obviously invalid on Windows:
>
> i686-w64-mingw32-gcc: error: unrecognized option '-pthread'
> error: cc exited with status 256
>
> I've grepped all the vapis on my system for "pthread", but haven't
> found a single mention; same goes for the valac sources. Where does
> this come from?

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