The following bug has been logged online: Bug reference: 3818 Logged by: Richard Evans Email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PostgreSQL version: 8.3beta Operating system: Linux/windows Description: Cross compilation problems Details:
I've been investigating cross-compiling for mingw32 on a linux build system. I used the current snapshot since it has a fix for the gettimeofday problem with new mingw installs. Mostly it worked, but there were a few problems which I think can all be fixed in the configure script: 1. The configure script does not check for cross-compile installs of ar, dlltool, dllwrap and windres. It manages to find the cross compile gcc (mingw32-gcc in my install), but does not check for mingw32-dlltool, etc. You work round this by setting AR= DLLTOOL= and DLLWRAP= on the make line but ideally it should be done in the configure stage. 2. The Makefile in pgevent/bin refers to dllwrap directly, not $(DLLWRAP). 3. Several makefiles use windres directly; there is no $(WINDRES) variable which can be set. 4. The zic problem in make install - see bug #1311. Simple solution here is to have a configure option which allows the use of the build systems own zic command. I may try coming up with some patches to configure to check for dlltool, etc but I haven't edited configure files before. Once I worked round these problems I was able to cross compile a working postgres for mingw32 on a linux host. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly