distribution. Therefore, this howto deals with cross-compiling tinc with MinGW
under Linux on a Debian distribution.
+The result is a 32-bit executable. If you want to create a 64-bit executable,
+have a look at the [[64-bit cross-compilation example|examples/cross-compiling-64-bit-windows-binary]].
+
### Overview
The idea is simple:
> sudo apt-get install mingw32 wine git-core
> sudo apt-get build-dep tinc
+Other Linux distributions may also have MinGW packages, use their respective
+package management tools to install them. Debian installs the cross-compiler
+in `/usr/i586-mingw32msvc/`. Other distributions might install it in another
+directory however, for example `/usr/i686-pc-mingw32/`. Check in which directory
+it is installed, and replace all occurences of `i586-mingw32msvc` in this
+example with the correct name from your distribution.
+
### Setting up the build directory and getting the sources
We will create a directory called `mingw/` in the home directory. We use
> export PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"
We use this script to call `./configure` and `make` with the right environment
-variables. You can also run the export commands from the `mingw` script by
+variables, but only when the `./configure` script doesn't support cross-compilation itself.
+You can also run the export commands from the `mingw` script by
hand instead of calling the mingw script for every `./configure` or `make`
command, or execute `$HOME/bin/mingw $SHELL` to get a shell with these
environment variables set, but in this howto we will call it explicitly every
Cross-compiling LZO is easy:
-> cd $HOME/lzo2-2.03
-> mingw ./configure --host=mingw32
-> mingw make
-> DESTDIR=$HOME/mingw mingw make install
+> cd $HOME/mingw/lzo2-2.03
+> ./configure --host=i586-mingw32msvc
+> make
+> DESTDIR=$HOME/mingw make install
### Compiling Zlib
> cd $HOME/mingw/tinc
> autoreconf -fsi
-> mingw ./configure --host=mingw32 --with-openssl=$HOME/mingw/usr/local
-> mingw make
+> ./configure --host=i586-mingw32msvc --with-openssl=$HOME/mingw/usr/local
+> make
### Testing tinc