Submitted by “Everyone of us always wanted to have the ability to compile for Windows and Unix in one makefile, right? Unfortunately, there is very few documentation on this topic and I had quite a hard time to get things working the way I wanted to. I wrote this small how-to to share the way I managed to build my toolchain with other people.”
“I didn’t test them on Windows, yet but I strongly believe they will run. If you run into troubles, please report them to me.”
hrmmm
Well, I developed a formula to grow money on trees and a syrum to make you immortal. I haven’t tested it yet, but you can bet it works!
Okay it works on windows, are you happy now?
Here is a much easier way to compile Windows, OS X and Linux games from one project:
http://www.blitzmax.com/Products/blitzmax.php
Sound interesting, but how can I compile my c and c++ files with it?
You mean without Automake and Autoconf?
Set the enviroment variables, and then, instead of gcc/g++, run $CC for C or $CXX for C++.
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@BlitzBasic: You didn’t get the point of free software, did you? And BlitzBasic isn’t C/C++, which makes it uninteresting for most people.
No, I meant Blitzbasic….it was ironic, because BlitzBasic is 100% not what I want when I try to compile some win32 c/c++/pascal programs under linux for windows.
Uhm, the article is about compiling windows executables while running under linux yourself.
What happens when you need to link with the superproprietary Microseft C runtime? FWIW, why in the world would anybody want to develop software for a niche and proprietary operating system that only runs on stack-based x86 piece of shit CPUs?
I have built the Mingw cross-compiler for Linux several times for building Inkscape for Windows, so I am fairly familiar with the process. But it can be confusing for beginners in the cross-compiler world. So I posted a copy of the current (gcc3.4.4) version of the Mingw cross-compiler, built on Fedora Core 4, at:
http://inkscape.org/win32/xmingw-3.4.4.tar.bz2
It is built to be unpacked to /usr/local/xmingw32. Just put /usr/local/xmingw32/bin at the front of your PATH, remember to call the compiler explicitly such as ‘i686-pc-mingw32-gcc’, and have fun. It has C and C++, and should run on most recent distros without any trouble.
Ishmal
Oops. The path should be:
/usr/local/xmingw
thats nice, compiling SDL ans wxWidgets for this should work the same way. just use another –prefix