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Hi, |
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Use mingw-w64 project and not old mingw, this wiki is wrong. |
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Don't be worried about these comments. |
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crossdev -t i686-w64-mingw32 |
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crossdev -t x86_64-w64-mingw32 |
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Alon |
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On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 6:43 PM, Marc Joliet <marcec@×××.de> wrote: |
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> Hi all |
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> I have the following scenario: I have a hobby project (msndfile.sf.net), |
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> which |
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> is a MATLAB MEX file. To create Windows binaries I currently have a |
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> Windows |
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> VM, which used to be a requirement in order to test compiling the project |
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> with |
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> the Visual Compiler, but I semi-recently ported the project to C99 |
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> (because why |
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> not, its my project), so I compile it with MingW now. |
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> |
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> Therefore I've become interested in ditching my Windows VM (which has |
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> become |
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> somewhat painful to maintain) in favour of cross-compiling for Windows and |
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> running MATLAB under Wine (assuming it works, which I'll have to find out |
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> myself). |
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> |
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> The only real questions I have is if the MinGW page on the Gentoo Wiki [0] |
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> is in |
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> conflict with the following recommendation from the cross-compiler handbook |
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> [1]: |
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> "However, there are some scenarios, albeit fewer as time goes on, which |
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> causes portage to require or to inflict changes to real root. To keep |
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> your |
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> Gentoo installation clean, we highly recommend that crossdev |
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> installation |
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> and all cross-compiling activities occur inside a Gentoo stage3 chroot. |
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> (This is the same chroot you used to install Gentoo.)" |
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> |
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> Keep in mind that I don't want to cross-emerge (the libraries I use exist |
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> as |
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> Windows binaries), I just want to use the cross-compiler in my own build |
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> system(s). Does the recommendation still hold then? |
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> As a final note, I originally thought winegcc would be a suitable |
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> alternative |
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> to MinGW, but it seems that it's only intended for compiling Windows |
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> applications for direct use with Wine. Is this correct, or can it also act |
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> as a |
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> drop-in replacement for MinGW? |
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> |
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> [0] http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Mingw |
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> [1] |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded/handbook/index.xml?part=1&chap=2 |
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> Greetings, |
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> -- |
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> Marc Joliet |
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> -- |
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> "People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we |
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> don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup |
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