mingw and wine

icecubeflower · 09-07-2009, 07:27 PM

Has anyone ever wrote linux programs that they want to make cross-platform, and then intalled Wine and installed MinGW and MSYS with Wine and actually compiled with MinGW in Wine and created Windows executables?

I was thinking about trying that but I wonder if anybody could already tell me it's impossible. ...or if there's a smarter way to make windows executables on a Linux machine.

Sergei Steshenko · 09-07-2009, 11:19 PM

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Originally Posted by icecubeflower

Has anyone ever wrote linux programs that they want to make cross-platform, and then intalled Wine and installed MinGW and MSYS with Wine and actually compiled with MinGW in Wine and created Windows executables?

I was thinking about trying that but I wonder if anybody could already tell me it's impossible. ...or if there's a smarter way to make windows executables on a Linux machine.

Yes, I used cross-mingw compilation and linking under Linux, and tested the output executables under 'wine'; I needed a Windows console application; the simplest Windows GUI application was also tested this way.

My point, though, is that the development environment, even though for Windows, was not under 'wine'.

icecubeflower · 09-08-2009, 03:30 PM

Oh so you can run a compiler as a LINUX application and it creates Windows executables? That's neat.

brianL · 09-08-2009, 04:12 PM

I came across (no pun intended) this a while ago, I haven't tried it though:

http://www.sandroid.org/imcross/

Sergei Steshenko · 09-08-2009, 04:35 PM

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Originally Posted by brianL

I came across (no pun intended) this a while ago, I haven't tried it though:

http://www.sandroid.org/imcross/

I used this one: http://www.nongnu.org/mingw-cross-env/#latest-release , though an earlier version. It is apparently more up to date; also, quite easy to build.