#1 Avoid patching wxWidgets to successfully cross-compile (long format specifier issue)

[Kickaha]

Cross-compiling the prototype (0.7.7) for win32 under my GNU/Linux environment (Debian Squeeze) requires to patch the wxwidget libraries (2.9.4) to avoid a bad long int conversion when using the button "Setup flat distribution".
The dialog should appear displaying the current number of levels for the distribution, but usually this number is converted (including junk data) as a long long int by the dialog provided in the wxwidgets libraries.

The current workaround is to edit the wxwidget library, forcing the (presumably) correct format specifier ("%d" instead of "%ld") in "src/generic/numdlgg.cpp", and rebuilding the wxwidgets (see also the README file).
Obviously this can be just a way to release the binary, but cannot be accepted as a solution.

The issue is known and depends on the version of mingw compiler I used to cross-compile the wxwidgets for win32, specifically on the pre-packaged debian squeeze version of mingw32-runtime (3.13-1), still having bug #452977.
The solution is just to apply the patch you find in the Debian bug report to mingw32-runtime and rebuild the wxwidgets.

I'm tracking this issue to log a possible solution for whoever will get stuck with it.
A handful script to do this will follow.

[Kickaha]

Script to patch mingw32-runtime attached (please, don't blindly run it, it's just a draft).