Re: [Mingw-users] Problems running mingw apps on PPC device

[L. D. <cod...@ho...>]

The short answer is that you are looking in the wrong place because there is 
no such thing as the "PPC version of MinGW". I believe there are ports of 
GCC targeting ARM/WinCE but they are not related to MinGW. Executables built 
for desktop Windows (NT/9x/etc.), which is what MinGW produces, are never 
compatible with Windows CE executables: you have to rebuild the program 
using a Windows CE compiler.

Luke

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eric House" <fi...@pe...>
To: <min...@li...>
Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 1:03 PM
Subject: [Mingw-users] Problems running mingw apps on PPC device


>I guess my first question should be: is anybody else using MinGW for
> PocketPC development?
>
> I'm trying to.  Debian has the necessary packages, and
> hello-world-style apps build and run fine.  But my goal is to move the
> development of Crosswords (see .sig), a very popular PPC app hosted on
> Sourceforge, from Windows to Linux.  Crosswords compiles and links,
> and if built for Win32 runs fine under WINE on Linux or on XP -- but
> the PPC app won't launch on a PPC device.
>
> Best as I can tell, the problem is that the .dlls on the device aren't
> quite what the app was built to expect.  (PPC puts up an alert that
> says "'Crosswords' is not a valid Pocket PC application.", but MSDN
> says this message indicates a .dll incompatibility.)  I'm looking for
> help tracking down the problem and, presumably, fixing it in the PPC
> version of MinGW.
>
> Am I looking in the right place?  Any other suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --Eric