I want to cross compile some programs (especially of the mozilla variety and home grown) for Windows on my Linux computer. I have gcc, but I have no Idea how to cross compile with it, or what I need to keep in mind when doing it.

Any help would be greatly apreciated.

"I want to cross compile some programs (especially of the mozilla variety and home grown) for Windows on my Linux computer. I have gcc, but I have no Idea how to cross compile with it"

Here is a tutorial for cross compiling with Wintel as the target.

http://rooster.stanford.edu/~ben/linux/crosshowto.php

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Steve Stites

Also check out Cygwin, DJGPP & Mingw. It's fairly easy to setup a toolchain for either of them under Linux that will output Windows executable code. I have all 3 setup under Slackware 10. Best I recall DJGPP was the most difficult to get working. There is a good guide for doing a Cygwin toolchain at colinux. The only bad thing about a Cygwin toolchain is that your app will require the cygwin1.dll be available for running it. All I use them for is CLI apps though.

According to the link posted by Jailbait (up thread) the syntax for cross compiling to Windows is:

i586-mingw32msvc-gcc -o hello.exe hello.c

Using FC4 -- I've installed the following 4 rpm's ...

mingw-binutils-2.16.91-9hl.i386.rpm
mingw-gcc-core-3.4.4-12hl.i386.rpm
mingw-runtime-3.7-16hl.i386.rpm
mingw-w32api-3.5-16hl.i386.rpm

which went smoothly and I can compile my hello.c test case that
executes fine in a linux shell but nowhere can I find the executable command 'i586-mingw32msvc-gcc' for cross compiling to win32.

What did I miss? Are there other rpms I need to load to get the cross compile features? Is there an 'installing mingw for dummies' tutorial that I could follow?

Your help is appreciated -- thank you.

You've looked in the usual places ? (Under Debian, the Mingw binaries end up in /usr/bin.)

Cheers,

mjrich

this is from my xbox programming post:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=420182

i needed mingw to cross-compile to .xbe format which is similar to winnt pe format (*.exe).

i used the following gcc switches (but i got compile errors)