[gentoo-dev] Re: MinGW for windows - creating dlls

[Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>]

On 03/25/2010 07:43 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Thursday 25 March 2010 12:57:21 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>> On 03/17/2010 03:38 PM, Mansour Al Akeel wrote:
>>> I am not sure if this is the best list to ask, but I will ask here since
>>> it's related to development and cross compilation.
>>>
>>> I have setup a 32 bit chroot environment to be able to cross develop for
>>> windows. I followed this guide:
>>>
>>> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded/cross-development.xml
>>
>> You should be better off using this instead:
>>
>> http://www.nongnu.org/mingw-cross-env
>
> mingw + dlls + etc... works just fine under crossdev/Gentoo
> -mike

It's just a bit difficult to work with.  It needs a lot of effort to set 
everything up.  I recommend mingw-cross-env because it simply works out 
of the box and you can even compile stuff like Qt and build Windows Qt 
applications without any effort.  64-bit Windows apps also easy to build.

So all things considered, it's the better solution.  crossdev of course 
has other virtues and is universal.  It's really just the MS Windows 
special case that makes mingw-cross-env worth looking at, since it's 
specialized for just this, while crossdev is a generic solution.

Btw, does anyone intent to put an ebuild of mingw-cross-env in Portage? :P