mingw_cross Documentation

mingw_cross: Build recipe to install the mingw cross environment

Installer script for the mingw cross environment. This will install to /opt/mingw and immediately begin cross-compiling gcc, boost and qt. Other libraries can be added by simply cd'ing to /opt/mingw and running make for the desired target.

• Homepage: http://ros.org/wiki/mingw_cross

Package Summary

Installer script for the mingw cross environment.

Usage

     make install        // installs to /opt/mingw and compiles gcc, boost and qt, also adds links.

Further build recipes can be compiled into the toolchain by simply switching to the root and making the appropriate target. A list of packages that can be installed can be found on

http://mingw-cross-env.nongnu.org/#packages

To build wxwidgets for example,

     cd /opt/mingw
     make wxwidgets

Faster

The above compile takes a long time - you can speed it up by setting the number of jobs in the Makefile.

Location

You can change the install location by setting the environment variable MINGW_INSTALL_PREFIX before running make install.

Troubleshooting

Broken Links:

To update the latest source link information, simply run `hg pull -u` from the mingw installation directory.

ToDo

Upgrade apr, apr-util and fix log4cxx to work with them.

ChangeLog

• May 12 : move to mignw_cross' new github repo.
• Dec 11 : now installs to a non sudo location.
• Oct 11 : moved to win_ros
• Oct 11 : converting to use hg clone and hg pull instead of the tarball.
• Nov 10 : Done and road tested.