Re: [Mingw-users] [mingw - Unix2Windows2Unix] Porting from Windows to Unix/Linux

[Michael G. <mg...@te...>]

> I am new to linux 
> I want to port a windows DLL to linux.
> Can I use Mingw on Windows to generate some kind of native code which can directly
> be run on linux?

You could, kind of.

What you want is x-compiling under Win32 for Linux. To do that
you would have to create a _new_ gcc very much like the one you
already have got.

Basically all you'd have to do is get the sources together with
the script provided that's creating the binaries. Adjust said
script to the new target (e.g. x86-linux-gnu) and run it. This
should create the desired toolchain.

If you don't know how to create the mingw toolchain under Win32
in the first place than this probably isn't a viable suggestion...

In that case you might be lucky to find someone who already had
created such a crosscompiler and published it on the web.

Just out of curiosity:
Why don't you get one of those CD-based Linux, boot your machine
with it and do this natively under Linux where you should have
all the tools required at your disposal anyway ?

Best,
Michael
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