Re: [Mingw-users] mingw-get update on Linux

[Raffaello D. Di N. <fas...@gm...>]

2011/1/21 Zeno Davatz <zd...@gm...>:
> Will try to follow the steps. I am on Gentoo-Linux.

Gentoo Linux has built-in support for cross-compiling, named crossdev,
which lets you emerge ebuilds (for example, zlib) for another CHOST,
such as i586-mingw32, by providing you an alternate emerge command
(i.e. emerge-i586-mingw32) which will keep all the cross-compiled tree
into its own hierarchy in /usr/${CHOST}.

With that, you can use the Portage system directly instead of
mingw-get. As long as the mingw32 target is supported by upstream for
a package, an ebuild should build just fine by emerging it with the
emerge-${CHOST}.

See [1] for more details about cross-mingw32, or [2] for more info on
setting up a generic crossdev environment. The official Gentoo
Handbook also has information about crossdev (obviously) at [3], but
it’s clearly aimed at embedded cross-building; it still offers plenty
of useful advices though.

[1] http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Mingw
[2] http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Crossdev
[3] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded/handbook/


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