Install The Mingw Cross-Compiler

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This is useful if you want to build windows executables on linux. See Cross-Compiling Under Linux.

The easy way: installing packages

On Debian, the packages you need are mingw32, mingw32-binutils and mingw32-runtime.

For SuSE, Redhat, Mandrake and other RPM-based installations, there are MinGW RPM packages. Note: As at 4 Oct 2007 the current MinGW Packages at this site don't contain a C++ compiler. I contacted the guy who packaged them and he said that building a c++ cross compiler was broken in the upstream sources at some point and the last version of his packages to contain a c++ compiler is Here. It should install and run on newer Fedora, even if it's compiled on Fedora 2.

For Gentoo, use the crossdev ebuild (ARCH should be whatever the host is running: x86, amd64, etc): 

echo sys-devel/crossdev ~ARCH >>/etc/portage/package.keywords && emerge crossdev && crossdev i586-mingw32

The hard way: installing by hand

1. Download following packages

2. Unpack sources somewhere (eg. /usr/src/crosscompiler )

3. Make a /usr/local/i386-mingw32 directory

4. Unpack mingw-runtime and w32api to this directory (these are neccessary header files)

5. Configure and compile binutils 

  ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --target=i386-mingw32
  make
  make install

6. Configure and compile gcc 

  ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --target=i386-mingw32
  
  Compile whole gcc package:
  make 
  make install

  or compile just c and c++ compiler (need less space)
  make LANGUAGES="c c++"
  make LANGUAGES="c c++" install

  if you get a libtool error about libobjc, and you only compiled c and c++,
  make distclean, delete the offending unused compilers, and recompile:
  rm -rf libjava libobjc gcc/java gcc/objc

6.b Optional: you can strip binaries in /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/i386-mingw32/bin to make them smaller: 

  cd /usr/local/bin; strip i386*
  cd /usr/local/i386-mingw32/bin; strip *

At this point, you have a working cross-compiler.

7. Optional: compile mingw-runtime-2.2 and w32api-2.0

7.a Download sources: 

  *mingw-runtime-2.2 source from SourceForge
  *w32api-2.0 source from SourceForge

7.b. Configure and compile them 

  ./configure --target=i386-mingw32 --prefix=/usr/local/i386-mingw32

  Edit Makefile and change all compiler programs (gcc, ld, dlltool, ranlib, windres, ar, as, ld) to the 
cross-compiler programs (i386-mingw32-gcc, i386-mingw32-ld, etc.)

  make
  make install
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