Re: cross compilation to w32

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Hallo Ralf,

On 8 Mar 2008, at 07:03, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> we have a couple of problems wrt. cross compilation to w32 in 2.2.
> When I cross-compile from GNU/Linux to MinGW using Debian's mingw32
> packages (i586-mingw32msvc-gcc etc.), then link mode already
> requires executing a host program; for example:
>
> cd tests/demo
> /bin/sh -x ./libtool --tag=CC   --mode=link i586-mingw32msvc-gcc  -g  
> -O2 -export-dynamic -dlpreopen libhello.la -L/usr/i586-mingw32msvc/ 
> lib -o helldl.exe dlmain.o
>
> [...]
> + ./helldl.exe --lt-dump-script
> Wine exited with a successful status
> + exit 0
>
> This means that building will fail on systems without a simulator.
>
> The other problem I've stumbled over so far is this one: the
> *_ltshwrapper file has DOS line endings.  This causes 'make install'
> to fail, because the native /bin/sh cannot parse the script:
>
>  /bin/sh ./libtool --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c 'hell.exe' '/ 
> home/ralf/download/cvs/libtool/HEAD/build-mingw/_inst/bin/hell.exe'
> : command not foundapper: line 2:
> : command not foundapper: line 11:
> : command not foundapper: line 16:
> ./.libs/hell_ltshwrapper: line 26: syntax error near unexpected  
> token `newline'
> ./.libs/hell_ltshwrapper: line 26: `  case `(set -o) 2>/dev/null` in  
> *posix*) se' -o posix;; esac
> libtool: install: invalid libtool wrapper script `./.libs/ 
> hell_ltshwrapper'
>
> Does anybody see easy ways out?


Shouldn't the cwrapper be compiled with the host compiler?  It looks as
though it isn't at the moment...

Cheers,
        Gary
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