Mingw-w64 toolchain now available for RHEL7/CentOS7 (using EPEL)

Thu Jun 12 19:15:35 UTC 2014

Hi,

Some days ago Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 was released. I'm glad to
announce that a large subset of all mingw packages which are in Fedora
are now also available in EPEL7 (the community supported set of
additional packages for RHEL7 and CentOS7).

The mingw packages which are now available in EPEL7 are the most recent
stable releases of the most popular packages. This includes the core
packages of the GNOME 3.12 stack (up to and including webkitgtk) and the
entire Qt 4.8.6 and 5.3 stacks. The toolchain itself consists of
binutils 2.24, gcc 4.9 and mingw-w64 trunk git b8e816 (dated 20140530).

To install these packages, just install RHEL7 (or CentOS7 once it
becomes available) and enable EPEL7 by installing
http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/beta/7/x86_64/epel-release-7-0.1.noarch.rpm
Afterwards the mingw packages can be installed in the exact same way as
is done for regular Fedora environments.

For those new to using mingw-w64 on Fedora or RHEL a tutorial can be
found at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW/Tutorial

Here's the entire list of mingw packages which are currently available
on EPEL7:

mingw-SDL-1.2.15-3.el7
mingw-SDL_image-1.2.12-8.el7
mingw-SDL_mixer-1.2.12-3.el7
mingw-angleproject-0-0.9.svn2215.20130517.el7
mingw-atk-2.12.0-1.el7
mingw-binutils-2.24-1.el7
mingw-boost-1.54.0-1.el7
mingw-bzip2-1.0.6-3.el7
mingw-cairo-1.12.16-2.el7
mingw-crt-3.1.999-0.10.trunk.gitb8e816.20140530.el7
mingw-curl-7.37.0-1.el7
mingw-dbus-1.6.12-1.el7
mingw-enchant-1.6.0-8.el7
mingw-expat-2.1.0-4.el7
mingw-filesystem-99-4.el7
mingw-flac-1.3.0-2.el7
mingw-fontconfig-2.11.1-1.el7
mingw-freetype-2.5.3-1.el7
mingw-gcc-4.9.0-1.el7
mingw-gdb-7.7-1.el7
mingw-gdk-pixbuf-2.30.8-1.el7
mingw-gettext-0.18.3.2-1.el7
mingw-glib-networking-2.38.2-2.el7
mingw-glib2-2.40.0-3.el7
mingw-gmp-5.1.1-3.el7
mingw-gnutls-3.3.2-2.el7
mingw-gstreamer1-1.3.2-1.el7
mingw-gstreamer1-plugins-base-1.3.2-1.el7
mingw-gtk2-2.24.23-1.el7
mingw-gtk3-3.12.2-1.el7
mingw-harfbuzz-0.9.28-1.el7
mingw-headers-3.1.999-0.10.trunk.gitb8e816.20140530.el7
mingw-hunspell-1.3.2-9.el7
mingw-icu-50.1.2-3.el7
mingw-jasper-1.900.1-21.el7
mingw-libffi-3.0.13-4.el7
mingw-libgcrypt-1.6.1-1.el7
mingw-libgpg-error-1.12-1.el7
mingw-libidn-1.28-2.el7
mingw-libjpeg-turbo-1.3.1-2.el7
mingw-libogg-1.3.0-4.el7
mingw-libpng-1.6.10-1.el7
mingw-libsoup-2.46.0-1.el7
mingw-libssh2-1.4.3-1.el7
mingw-libtasn1-3.6-1.el7
mingw-libtiff-4.0.3-4.el7
mingw-libvorbis-1.3.4-1.el7
mingw-libwebp-0.2.1-2.el7
mingw-libxml2-2.9.1-3.el7
mingw-libxslt-1.1.28-2.el7
mingw-nettle-2.7.1-2.el7
mingw-openssl-1.0.1e-6.el7
mingw-p11-kit-0.20.2-3.el7
mingw-pango-1.36.3-1.el7
mingw-pcre-8.34-1.el7
mingw-pdcurses-3.4-14.el7
mingw-pixman-0.32.0-1.el7
mingw-pkg-config-0.28-2.el7
mingw-postgresql-9.3.4-2.el7
mingw-qt-4.8.6-3.el7
mingw-qt5-qt3d-5.0.0-0.12.git20140525.bdb98ba.el7
mingw-qt5-qtbase-5.3.0-2.el7
mingw-qt5-qtdeclarative-5.3.0-2.el7
mingw-qt5-qtgraphicaleffects-5.3.0-2.el7
mingw-qt5-qtimageformats-5.3.0-2.el7
mingw-qt5-qtlocation-5.3.0-2.el7
mingw-qt5-qtmultimedia-5.3.0-2.el7
mingw-qt5-qtquick1-5.3.0-2.el7
mingw-qt5-qtscript-5.3.0-2.el7
mingw-qt5-qtsensors-5.3.0-2.el7
mingw-qt5-qtsvg-5.3.0-2.el7
mingw-qt5-qtsystems-5.0.0-0.14.git20140323.3f65ffa.el7
mingw-qt5-qttools-5.3.0-3.el7
mingw-qt5-qttranslations-5.3.0-1.el7
mingw-qt5-qtwebkit-5.3.0-2.el7
mingw-readline-6.2-4.el7
mingw-sqlite-3.8.4.3-1.el7
mingw-tcl-8.5.15-2.el7
mingw-termcap-1.3.1-15.el7
mingw-w64-tools-3.1.999-0.3.trunk.git502c72.20140524.el7
mingw-webkitgtk-2.2.7-2.el7
mingw-webkitgtk3-2.2.7-2.el7
mingw-win-iconv-0.0.6-1.el7
mingw-winpthreads-3.1.999-0.5.trunk.git502c72.20140524.el7
mingw-winstorecompat-3.1.999-0.1.trunk.git502c72.20140524.el7
mingw-xz-5.1.2-3alpha.el7
mingw-zlib-1.2.8-2.el7

Is your favorite package missing from this list and you want to have it
available in EPEL7? Then there are some options:
If the package is already in Fedora:
  - If you're a regular user then you can file a bug at
    http://bugzilla.redhat.com against the Fedora package in question
    where you ask the package maintainer if they're interested in
    making the package available for EPEL7
  - If you're the package maintainer of the package in question then
    use https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/epel7/Requests to request
    an epel7 branch for your package
If the package is not in Fedora yet and you're willing to maintain it:
  - Write a RPM .spec file which follows the guidelines at
    https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:MinGW and put it up
    for review using the instructions which can be found at
    https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/Join

Regards,

Erik van Pienbroek
Fedora MinGW SIG