Build executable setup for Windows on Linux

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  • Simple procedure on Debian 12 (Bookworm)
    • Download and unpack source archive
    • Prepare to build
    • Build packages
  • Simple procedure on Fedora 41
    • Download and unpack source archive
    • Prepare to build
    • Build packages
  • Used directories and files
  • Process optimization

Build executable setup for Windows on Linux

Simple procedure on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Download and unpack source archive

As unprivileged user download the *.tar.gz file and unpack it:

cd ~/Downloads
tar xzf dktools-4.38.0.tar.gz

Prepare to build

As root install the developer packages required:

cd ~user/Downloads/dktools-4.38.0
scripts/debian-prepare-mingw64

Build packages

As unprivileged user run:

cd ~user/Downloads/dktools-4.38.0
scripts/debian-build-mingw64

You should end up with a file dktools-4.38.0-WINDOWS-10-mingw64-nsis.exe and a file dktools-4.38.0-mingw64.zip in the parent of the current directory.

Simple procedure on Fedora 41

Download and unpack source archive

As unprivileged user download the *.tar.gz file and unpack it:

cd ~/Downloads
tar xzf dktools-4.38.0.tar.gz

Prepare to build

As root install the developer packages required:

cd ~user/Downloads/dktools-4.38.0
scripts/fedora41-prepare-mingw64

Build packages

As unprivileged user run:

cd ~user/Downloads/dktools-4.38.0
scripts/fedora41-build-mingw64

You should end up with a file dktools-4.38.0-WINDOWS-10-mingw64-nsis.exe and a file dktools-4.38.0-mingw64.zip in the parent of the current directory.

Used directories and files

We refer to the parent directory of the unpacked archive as “DIR”.
In our simple example this was the “~user/Downloads” directory.

• ~user/Downloads/dktools-dep
  is used to store the source archives of required libraries.

• ${DIR}/dktools-4.38.0-depsrc
  contains the unpacked source archives of the required libraries.

• ${DIR}/dktools-4.38.0-mingw
  is the build root.

• ${DIR}/dktools-4.38.0-mingw.zip
  is an archive containing the software but no installation routine.

• ${DIR}/dktools-4.38.0.nsi
  is the nsis control file to build the installer.

• ${DIR}/dktools-4.38.0-WINDOWS-version-mingw64-nsis.exe
  is the executable installer.

Process optimization

A lot of I/O activity happens in the ${DIR} directory during the build process. If there is enough RAM in your computer, I suggest to build a RAM disk (4 GB should be sufficient), mount it as “/media/ramdisk” and use that directory as ${DIR}.

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