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