Richard Evans wrote: > 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.
Out of curiosity, why? > 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). This is a definite oversight, so I've fixed this in HEAD. > 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. The rest of this is definitely not 8.3 material. But if you come up with patches for 8.4, I'm sure we'd be interested ;-) If you have any specific questions about the autoconf stuff (or any other parts of it), just post it to -hackers. > Once I worked round these problems I was able to cross compile a working > postgres for mingw32 on a linux host. Cool! //Magnus ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
