Cross-building Windows binaries using the mingw toolchain

[Florian Weimer]

On 05/04/2014 08:50 PM, Ludovic HOCHET wrote:

>> I finally got it to work.  When running on 64-bit Windows, you have to
>> specify --with-target-bits=32, otherwise building with Visual Studio Express
>> will fail.  It's obvious in retrospect, but somewhat difficult to figure
>> out, considering that ./configure explicitly ignores the failure to locate
>> the 64-bit environment variables file from Visual Studio.

> For 64bits you need to also install the Windows SDK [1], from a blog
> post by Volker [2] VS Express does not include all the necessary stuff
> for 64bits.
>
> [1] http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8279
> [2] https://weblogs.java.net/blog/simonis/archive/2011/10/28/yaojowbi-yet-another-openjdk-windows-build-instruction

It's always a bit difficult to tell if build instructions from three 
years ago are still valid.  I'll keep those resources in mind and try 
them once I need building on 64 bit.  Thanks.

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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security Team