From: Guus Sliepen <guus@tinc-vpn.org>
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 22:47:06 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Update the cross-compilation example.
X-Git-Url: https://tinc-vpn.org/git/browse?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9e3fb832a3ccd3c830dd30d5304888be95db76fa;p=wiki

Update the cross-compilation example.

The mingw script is only necessary when the ./configure script of a project
does not support the --host option that enables cross-compilation.
---

diff --git a/examples/cross-compiling-windows-binary.mdwn b/examples/cross-compiling-windows-binary.mdwn
index 2af6c57..2e850c1 100644
--- a/examples/cross-compiling-windows-binary.mdwn
+++ b/examples/cross-compiling-windows-binary.mdwn
@@ -57,7 +57,8 @@ If `$HOME/bin` is not already part of your `$PATH`, you need to add it:
 >     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
@@ -67,10 +68,10 @@ time it is needed.
 
 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
 
@@ -106,8 +107,8 @@ this is not necessary.
 
 >     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