mingw on mint

[Bob Tennent]

I need to build Windows binaries from a conventional source
tarball. I used to work in a RedHat environment and I recall
using specialized configure and make scripts from mingw
packages. But I'm now on Mint and I have no idea.

Can anyone help? What packages do I need? Which scripts
do I use to configure and make?

Bob T.

[Bob Tennent]

Post by Bob Tennent
I need to build Windows binaries from a conventional source
tarball. I used to work in a RedHat environment and I recall
using specialized configure and make scripts from mingw
packages. But I'm now on Mint and I have no idea.
Can anyone help? What packages do I need? Which scripts
do I use to configure and make?

It seems the answers (from stackexchange) are gcc-mingw-w64
and ./configure --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32.

Bob T.

[Jasen Betts]

Post by Bob Tennent

Post by Bob Tennent
I need to build Windows binaries from a conventional source
tarball. I used to work in a RedHat environment and I recall
using specialized configure and make scripts from mingw
packages. But I'm now on Mint and I have no idea.
Can anyone help? What packages do I need? Which scripts
do I use to configure and make?

It seems the answers (from stackexchange) are gcc-mingw-w64
and ./configure --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32.

That sounds right if it's an autotools build.
https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.65/html_node/Specifying-Target-Triplets.html

"x86_64-w64-mingw32" what a name!, but I guess the 32 in there is
just an identifier used by microsoft who should never be trusted with
numbers *.

(*) here "32" means string arguments to the ABI are encoded with UTF16-LE