How do I get mingw-w64 operational?

[Simson Garfinkel]

Thanks. I'm happy to write something up once I'm able to get this to work. Do I have editing rights on the wiki?

On Jul 9, 2011, at 10:13 PM, NightStrike wrote:

> What we really need is the experience of new users in the wiki.  The
> wiki is predominantly written by people that are very experienced with
> this stuff, so we leave out a whole lot of details that new users
> really do in fact need.  Would you be able to contribute to the wiki
> and provide what you've learned from the perspective of someone
> starting out?
> 
> On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Simson Garfinkel <simsong at acm.org> wrote:
>> Wow, this is really great info. Any chance of putting it on the wiki? would
>> have saved me about two hours of stumbling around.
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>> On Jul 9, 2011 10:40 AM, "Erik van Pienbroek" <erik at vanpienbroek.nl> wrote:
>>> Simson Garfinkel schreef op za 09-07-2011 om 07:01 [-0400]:
>>>> Hi. I have a few "newbie" questions. I've been using mingw32 to
>>>> cross-compile Windows apps from Linux. One of my users requests 64-bit
>>>> binaries and I've been unable to get it to work.
>>>> 
>>>> 1. Is there a repo that contains RPMs for mingw-w64 to allow me to use
>>>> the cross-compiler under Fedora FC15? (or FC14?) I have spent significant
>>>> time on this, but only the 32-bit compilers get installed. Am I missing
>>>> something obvious? Do I just need to compile from sources? If so, is there
>>>> documentation on how to do that?
>>>> 
>>>> 2. Once I get it installed, what's the "--host=" option that I provide to
>>>> configure scripts to make it produce 64-bit .exes?
>>>> 
>>>> 3. What's the difference between amd64 and i586?
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks!
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>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> There is currently a testing repository available around which contains
>>> packages for mingw32, mingw64 and darwinx. We're currently trying to get
>>> the mingw32 and mingw64 packages merged back to Fedora, but it's
>>> currently stalled due to legal issues. So if you want to build win64
>>> binaries then you have to install packages from the testing repository.
>>> More details about this repository and installation instructies can be
>>> found at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW/CrossCompilerFramework
>>> More information about this repository can also be found in the archives
>>> of this mailing list.
>>> 
>>> Once you have the repository configured you can install all win64
>>> packages you need for your project using yum (all win64 packages have
>>> the prefix 'mingw64-').
>>> 
>>> With this set of packages you can also use scripts like
>>> mingw64-configure to get your package built for win64.
>>> 
>>> The amd64 and i586 are names of architectures. In the Fedora world,
>>> these names aren't used. For both native as cross-compiled applications
>>> we use the architectures x86_64 and i686. The architectures i586/i686
>>> are 32bit targets and the architectures amd64/x86_64 are 64bit targets.
>>> 
>>> Kind regards,
>>> 
>>> Erik van Pienbroek
>>> 
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