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Cross compiling mingw.

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mingw on Windows

Msys shell typically runs:

   sh.exe --login -i

You can make OpenSSL with:

   $ ./config no-threads --prefix=... --openssldir='C:/mingw/msys/1.0/...'

mingw on Ubuntu

I got going with:

  apt-get install mingw32

That gave me the 4.2.1 compiler.

I could then compile with the following maker file:

mingw on fedora

Typing yum search mingw yields a bunch of hits:

mingw32-filesystem.noarch : MinGW base filesystem and environment
mingw32-libgnurx.noarch : MinGW Regex library
mingw32-libgnurx-static.noarch : Static version of the MinGW Windows regular expression library
mingw32-runtime.noarch : MinGW Windows cross-compiler runtime
mingw32-atk.noarch : MinGW Windows Atk library
mingw32-atk-static.noarch : Static version of the MinGW Windows Atk library
mingw32-binutils.x86_64 : MinGW Windows binutils
mingw32-boost-static.noarch : Static version of the MinGW Windows Boost C++ library
mingw32-cairo.noarch : MinGW Windows Cairo library
mingw32-cairo-static.noarch : Static version of the MinGW Windows Cairo library
mingw32-cppunit.noarch : MinGW Windows C++ unit testing framework
mingw32-crossreport.noarch : Analysis tool to help cross-compilation to Windows
mingw32-curl.noarch : MinGW Windows port of curl and libcurl
mingw32-curl-static.noarch : Static version of the MinGW Windows Curl library
mingw32-dbus-static.noarch : Static version of MinGW Windows port of DBus library
mingw32-dlfcn-static.noarch : Static version of the MinGW Windows dlfcn library
mingw32-enchant.noarch : MinGW Windows Enchanting Spell Checking Library
mingw32-enchant-static.noarch : Static version of the MinGW Windows enchant library
mingw32-fontconfig.noarch : MinGW Windows Fontconfig library
mingw32-gcc.x86_64 : MinGW Windows cross-compiler (GCC) for C
mingw32-gcc-c++.x86_64 : MinGW Windows cross-compiler for C++
mingw32-gcc-gfortran.x86_64 : MinGW Windows cross-compiler for FORTRAN
mingw32-gcc-objc.x86_64 : MinGW Windows cross-compiler support for Objective C
mingw32-gcc-objc++.x86_64 : MinGW Windows cross-compiler support for Objective C++
mingw32-gdbm.noarch : MinGW port of GNU database routines
mingw32-gdk-pixbuf.noarch : MinGW Windows GDK Pixbuf library
mingw32-gettext-static.noarch : Static version of the MinGW Windows Gettext library
mingw32-glib2.noarch : MinGW Windows GLib2 library
mingw32-glib2-static.noarch : Static version of the MinGW Windows GLib2 library
mingw32-gnutls.noarch : MinGW GnuTLS TLS/SSL encryption library
mingw32-gtk2.noarch : MinGW Windows Gtk2 library
mingw32-gtk2-static.noarch : Static version of the MinGW Windows Gtk2 library
mingw32-gtkhtml3.noarch : MinGW library for embedding a lightweight web browser in GTK programs
mingw32-gtkhtml3-static.noarch : Static version of the MinGW Windows GtkHTML library
mingw32-hunspell.noarch : MinGW Windows spell checker and morphological analyzer library
mingw32-hunspell-static.noarch : Static version of the MinGW Windows hunspell library
mingw32-iconv-static.noarch : Static version of the MinGW Windows Iconv library
mingw32-jasper.noarch : MinGW Windows Jasper library
mingw32-jasper-static.noarch : Static version of the MinGW Windows Jasper library
mingw32-libffi.noarch : A portable foreign function interface library for MinGW
mingw32-libglade2.noarch : MinGW Windows Libglade2 library
mingw32-libglade2-static.noarch : Static MinGW Windows Libglade2 library
mingw32-libgpg-error.noarch : MinGW Windows GnuPGP error library
mingw32-libidn-static.noarch : Static version of the MinGW Windows IDN library
mingw32-libjpeg.noarch : MinGW Windows Libjpeg library
mingw32-libjpeg-static.noarch : Static version of the MinGW Windows Libjpeg library
mingw32-libpng.noarch : MinGW Windows Libpng library
mingw32-libsigc++20.noarch : MinGW Windows port of the typesafe signal framework for C++
mingw32-libsigsegv.noarch : MinGW library for handling page faults in user mode
mingw32-libsoup.noarch : MinGW library for HTTP and XML-RPC functionality
mingw32-libsoup-static.noarch : Static version of the MinGW Windows Libsoup library
mingw32-libssh2-static.noarch : Static version of the MinGW Windows SSH2 library
mingw32-libtiff-static.noarch : Static version of the MinGW Windows LibTIFF library
mingw32-libxml2.noarch : MinGW Windows libxml2 XML processing library
mingw32-libxml2-static.noarch : Static version of the MinGW Windows XML processing library
mingw32-libxslt-static.noarch : Static version of the MinGW Windows LibXSLT library
mingw32-openssl.noarch : MinGW port of the OpenSSL toolkit
mingw32-openssl-static.noarch : Static version of the MinGW port of the OpenSSL toolkit
mingw32-pango.noarch : MinGW Windows Pango library
mingw32-pango-static.noarch : Static version of the MinGW Windows Pango library
mingw32-pcre.noarch : MinGW Windows pcre library
mingw32-pdcurses.noarch : Curses library for MinGW
mingw32-pixman.noarch : MinGW Windows Pixman library
mingw32-pixman-static.noarch : Static version of the MinGW Windows Pixman library
mingw32-plotmm.noarch : MinGW GTKmm plot widget for scientific applications
mingw32-portablexdr.noarch : MinGW Windows PortableXDR / RPC Library
mingw32-qpid-cpp.noarch : MinGW Windows port of AMQP C++ Daemons and Libraries
mingw32-qwt.noarch : MinGW Windows Qwt library
mingw32-srvany.noarch : Utility for creating services for Windows
mingw32-termcap.noarch : MinGW terminal feature database
mingw32-w32api.noarch : Win32 header files and stubs
mingw32-webkitgtk.noarch : MinGW Windows web content engine library
mingw32-webkitgtk-static.noarch : Static version of the MinGW Windows WebKitGTK+ library
mingw32-wpcap.noarch : MinGW user-level packet capture
mingw32-zfstream.noarch : MinGW Windows abstraction API for reading and writing compressed files
mingw32-zlib.noarch : MinGW Windows zlib compression library
mingw32-zlib-static.noarch : Static libraries for mingw32-zlib development.
mingw32-OpenSceneGraph.noarch : Fedora mingw high performance real-time graphics toolkit
mingw32-SDL.noarch : MinGW Windows port of SDL cross-platform multimedia library
mingw32-SDL_image.noarch : MinGW Windows port of the Image loading library for SDL
mingw32-SDL_mixer.noarch : MinGW Windows port of Simple DirectMedia Layer's Sample Mixer Library
mingw32-atkmm.noarch : MinGW Windows C++ interface for the ATK library
mingw32-boost.noarch : MinGW Windows port of Boost C++ Libraries
mingw32-bzip2.noarch : MinGW port of bzip2 file compression utility
mingw32-cairomm.noarch : MinGW Windows C++ API for the cairo graphics library
mingw32-cpp.x86_64 : MinGW Windows cross-C Preprocessor
mingw32-dbus.noarch : MinGW Windows port of DBus
mingw32-dirac.noarch : Dirac is an open source video codec
mingw32-expat.noarch : MinGW Windows port of expat XML parser library
mingw32-freeglut.noarch : Fedora MinGW alternative to the OpenGL Utility Toolkit (GLUT)
mingw32-freetype.noarch : Free and portable font rendering engine
mingw32-gettext.noarch : GNU libraries and utilities for producing multi-lingual messages
mingw32-glibmm24.noarch : MinGW Windows C++ interface for GTK2 (a GUI library for X)
mingw32-gtk-vnc.noarch : MinGW Windows port of VNC client GTK widget
mingw32-gtkmm24.noarch : MinGW Windows C++ interface for GTK2 (a GUI library for X)
mingw32-gvnc.noarch : MinGW Windows port of VNC GObject
mingw32-iconv.noarch : GNU libraries and utilities for character set conversion
mingw32-libgcrypt.noarch : MinGW Windows gcrypt encryption library
mingw32-libglademm24.noarch : MinGW Windows C++ wrapper for libglade
mingw32-libidn.noarch : MinGW Windows Internationalized Domain Name support library
mingw32-libltdl.noarch : Runtime libraries for GNU Libtool Dynamic Module Loader
mingw32-libp11.noarch : MingGW Windows libp11 library
mingw32-libsq3.noarch : MinGW Windows C++ Wrapper for the SQLite3 embeddable SQL database engine
mingw32-libsqlite3x.noarch : MinGW Windows C++ Wrapper for the SQLite3 embeddable SQL database engine
mingw32-libssh2.noarch : MinGW Windows library implementation of the SSH2 protocol
mingw32-libtiff.noarch : MinGW Windows port of the LibTIFF library
mingw32-libxml++.noarch : MinGW Windows C++ wrapper for the libxml2 XML parser library
mingw32-libxslt.noarch : MinGW Windows Library providing the Gnome XSLT engine
mingw32-minizip.noarch : Minizip manipulates files from a .zip archive
mingw32-nsiswrapper.noarch : Helper program for making NSIS Windows installers
mingw32-openjpeg.noarch : MinGW Windows openjpeg library
mingw32-opensc.noarch : MingGW Windows OpenSC library
mingw32-pangomm.noarch : MinGW Windows C++ interface for Pango
mingw32-physfs.noarch : MinGW Windows port of the PhysicsFS library
mingw32-plib.noarch : Fedora mingw set of portable game related libraries
mingw32-plib-static.noarch : Static version of Fedora mingw set of portable game related libraries
mingw32-pthreads.noarch : MinGW pthread library
mingw32-readline.noarch : MinGW port of readline for editing typed command lines
mingw32-sigar.noarch : MinGW Windows sigar library
mingw32-sqlite.noarch : MinGW Windows port of sqlite embeddable SQL database engine
mingw32-tcl.noarch : MinGW Windows Tool Command Language, pronounced tickle
mingw32-tk.noarch : MinGW Windows graphical toolkit for the Tcl scripting language
mingw32-wpcap-docs.noarch : MinGW pcap documentation
mingw32-wpcap-examples.noarch : Example source code for MinGW pcap
mingw32-OpenThreads.noarch : OpenThreads
mingw32-celt051.noarch : An audio codec for use in low-delay speech and audio communication
mingw32-dlfcn.noarch : Implements a wrapper for dlfcn (dlopen dlclose dlsym dlerror)
mingw32-libgeotiff.noarch : GeoTIFF format library
mingw32-libogg.noarch : The Ogg bitstream file format library
mingw32-liboil.noarch : Library of Optimized Inner Loops, CPU optimized functions
mingw32-libzip.noarch : C library for reading, creating, and modifying zip archives
mingw32-nsis.x86_64 : Nullsoft Scriptable Install System
mingw32-proj.noarch : Cartographic projection software (PROJ.4)
mingw32-qt.noarch : Qt for Windows
mingw32-qt-qmake.x86_64 : Qt for Windows Build Environment
mingw32-xerces-c.noarch : MingGW Windows validating XML parser
qdevelop.x86_64 : Development environment dedicated to Qt4

I got going on Fedora Core 14 with the following commands:

  sudo yum install mingw32-pthreads

This installed the 4.5.x compiler:

[root@FC14 simsong]# i686-pc-mingw32-gcc --version
i686-pc-mingw32-gcc (GCC) 4.5.0 20100414 (Fedora MinGW 4.5.0-1.fc14)
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

[root@FC14 simsong]#