Re: [Mingw-users] How to cross compile np-activex with mingw on Linux?

[Earnie <ea...@us...>]

Qian Hong wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm new to mingw, very grateful for any suggestions to newbie. Here is
> my question:
> 
> np-activex [1] is an open source npapi plugin for Chrome/Chromium on
> Windows only,
> what it does is to forward npapi call to activex control, with this
> plugin, lots of ActiveX
> Control works well on Windows Chrome/Chromium.
> 

I wish you luck in this.  Consider making notes and adding to the
www.mingw.org/wiki when you've worked it out.

> np-activex is build by VS2010, now I'm considering rebuild it on linux
> with mingw cross
> complier [*], I don't know if this is possible, if yes where should I
> start from?
> 

I don't know either.

> As I know, np-activex use *.sln files, I'm considering use sln2mak to
> convert them into
> makefiles, but sln2mak doesn't work on Linux [3] , is there any other
> similar tools?

Is sln2mak portable to linux?  I mean is it open source so that you can
port it to linux to execute there?

> Maybe this question is a little off-topic, but thanks for any suggestions.
>

No, not off topic, you're trying to use MinGW but as a cross-compiler.

> Sincerely appreciate for any help!
> 

You might not find much help here though.  You might want to look at
lists specific to np-activex.

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