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List:       mingw-users
Subject:    Re: [Mingw-users] mingw-get update on Linux
From:       Zeno Davatz <zdavatz () gmail ! com>
Date:       2011-01-22 19:21:57
Message-ID: AANLkTinYp=thYC035D9X1uR9f_sDe3jEUdVJsJ4Mco-O () mail ! gmail ! com
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Dear Raffaello

Thank you for the Feedback.

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 8:21 PM, Raffaello D. Di Napoli
<fastijum@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2011/1/21 Zeno Davatz <zdavatz@gmail.com>:
> > Will try to follow the steps. I am on Gentoo-Linux.
> 
> Gentoo Linux has built-in support for cross-compiling, named crossdev,
> which lets you emerge ebuilds (for example, zlib) for another CHOST,
> such as i586-mingw32, by providing you an alternate emerge command
> (i.e. emerge-i586-mingw32) which will keep all the cross-compiled tree
> into its own hierarchy in /usr/${CHOST}.
> 
> With that, you can use the Portage system directly instead of
> mingw-get. As long as the mingw32 target is supported by upstream for
> a package, an ebuild should build just fine by emerging it with the
> emerge-${CHOST}.
> 
> See [1] for more details about cross-mingw32, or [2] for more info on
> setting up a generic crossdev environment. The official Gentoo
> Handbook also has information about crossdev (obviously) at [3], but
> it’s clearly aimed at embedded cross-building; it still offers plenty
> of useful advices though.
> 
> [1] http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Mingw
> [2] http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Crossdev
> [3] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded/handbook/
> 
> 
> PS: it looks like my earlier submission of this message was rejected
> by SF, although I’m sure I was regularly subscribed; in any case, I
> had to subscribe again. If you see two copies of this message, that’s
> why.

I was aware of that but your inputs are definitely Added Value!
Sometimes installing from source is easier on Gentoo. ;)

Best
Zeno

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