From: Guus Sliepen <guus@tinc-vpn.org>
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 11:01:48 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Small fixes to the cross-compilation howto.
X-Git-Url: https://tinc-vpn.org/git/browse?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ad8f68f7d9acca385b921530d1b5d4cefc1de531;p=wiki

Small fixes to the cross-compilation howto.
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diff --git a/examples/cross-compiling-windows-binary.mdwn b/examples/cross-compiling-windows-binary.mdwn
index e8337e8..2af6c57 100644
--- a/examples/cross-compiling-windows-binary.mdwn
+++ b/examples/cross-compiling-windows-binary.mdwn
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-[[!meta title="cross-compiling a Windows binary under Linux using MinGW"]]
+[[!meta title="cross-compiling tinc for Windows under Linux using MinGW"]]
 
-## Howto: cross-compiling a Windows binary under Linux using MinGW
+## Howto: cross-compiling tinc for Windows under Linux using MinGW
 
 This howto describes how to create a Windows binary of tinc. Although it is
 possible to compile tinc under Windows itself, cross-compiling it under Linux
@@ -26,17 +26,18 @@ There are only a few packages that need to be installed as root to get started:
 
 ### Setting up the build directory and getting the sources
 
-We will create a directory called `mingw/` in the home directory.
-We use apt-get to get the required libraries necessary for tinc.
+We will create a directory called `mingw/` in the home directory.  We use
+apt-get to get the required libraries necessary for tinc, and use `git` to get
+the latest development version of tinc.
 
 >     mkdir $HOME/mingw
 >     cd $HOME/mingw
 >     apt-get source openssl liblzo2-dev zlib1g-dev
 >     git clone git://tinc-vpn.org/tinc
 
-### Creating the mingw script
+### Making cross-compilation easy
 
-To make cross-compiling easy, we install a script called `mingw` that will set
+To make cross-compiling easy, we create a script called `mingw` that will set
 up the necessary environment variables so configure scripts and Makefiles will
 use the MinGW version of GCC and binutils:
 
@@ -45,7 +46,7 @@ use the MinGW version of GCC and binutils:
 >     #!/bin/sh
 >     export CC=i586-mingw32msvc-gcc
 >     export CXX=i586-mingw32msvc-g++
->     export CPP=/usr/bin/i586-mingw32msvc-cpp
+>     export CPP=i586-mingw32msvc-cpp
 >     export RANLIB=i586-mingw32msvc-ranlib
 >     export PATH="/usr/i586-mingw32msvc/bin:$PATH"
 >     exec "$@"
@@ -55,10 +56,12 @@ If `$HOME/bin` is not already part of your `$PATH`, you need to add it:
 
 >     export PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"
 
-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 $SHELL` to get a shell with the right environment variables
-set.
+We use this script to call `./configure` and `make` with the right environment
+variables.  You can also run the export commands from the `mingw` script by
+hand instead of calling the mingw script for every `./configure` or `make`
+command, or execute `$HOME/bin/mingw $SHELL` to get a shell with these
+environment variables set, but in this howto we will call it explicitly every
+time it is needed.
 
 ### Compiling LZO
 
@@ -83,7 +86,10 @@ tests, so we only build the static library here:
 
 OpenSSL is always a bit hard to compile, because they have their own
 `Configure` script that needs some tweaking. There is also a small bug in
-e_os2.h that breaks compilation with recent versions of GCC. First download this [[openssl-cross-compilation.diff]] to your home directory, then patch OpenSSL, and then compile as usual:
+e_os2.h that breaks compilation with recent versions of GCC. First download
+this [[openssl-cross-compilation.diff]] to your home directory, then patch
+OpenSSL, and then compile as usual.  Do not use the `-j` option when compiling
+OpenSSL, it will break.
 
 >     cd $HOME/mingw/openssl-0.9.8k
 >     patch < $HOME/openssl-cross-compilation.diff
@@ -100,7 +106,7 @@ this is not necessary.
 
 >     cd $HOME/mingw/tinc
 >     autoreconf -fsi
->     mingw ./configure --host=mingw32 -with-openssl=$HOME/mingw/usr/local
+>     mingw ./configure --host=mingw32 --with-openssl=$HOME/mingw/usr/local
 >     mingw make
 
 ### Testing tinc