On 1/17/2012 06:41 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote: > I am not sure what you really like. Cross compiling is a general "problem" > and > not related to a specific distro. > > For your specific problem: it is most unlikely that you will get a MS cross > compiler that runs on other platforms than WIN-DOS. > > In general: The most annoying problem with cross compiling is that GNU > autoconf > does not support cross compiling and as a result, you need to manually create > results if you like to cross compile. The reason for this problem is that > many > autoconf tests need to be run on the target platform in order to create > useful > results. > > Since July 2011, the Schily autoconf system (available e.g. via: > ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily) includes support for cross compiling by > detecting cross compilation and by running those tests that need the target > system either on a related target system or on an emulator. Note that the > autoconf configuration in ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily includes aprox. 700 > autoconf tests - 70 of these tests need to be run on the target, this can be > seen as a hint that aprox. 10% of the tests need to be run on the target. > > As you see, your question cannot be easily answered. > > Jörg
I am using the equivalent of the Debian cross compiler - without Debian. This has been used to cross compile many 32 bit applications from Debian for W32, from what I understand. I have managed to cross compile bzip2, lame, libogg, libvorbis, vorbis-tools, and a few others - they all work. With most, I only needed to set the correct path (to mingw), and specify the tools and target and run the configure script. I ran into problems with gzip and zlib, however. Thanks for the link, I will look into it. Though I hate the idea of running msys and mingw or anything like that in a W64 environment. The really annoying thing for me is that if you look at the Mingw64 site on sourceforge, they indicate that you can cross compile from a GNU/Linux distribution to W32 or W64 - and they give a list of apps that were successfully cross compiled, but little in the way of documentation. Chris
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