Re: MinGW linux to win32 cross compiler and the test suite

[Roumen Petrov]

Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have the beginnings of a solution to this issue.
>
> If I hack the libtool generated wrapper script and replace this:
>
>       exec "$progdir/$program" ${1+"$@"}
>
> with 
>
>       WINEDLLPATH="$PATH;$WINEDLLPATH"
>       exec wine "$progdir/$program" ${1+"$@"}
>
> My test suite works. Ie, I cross compile from Linux to win32 and
> the test suite gets run under wine. Personally, I find this an
> huge improvement over developing on windows.
>
> I now have a follow up question. Would it be possible/desirable to
> have autoconf/automake/libtool do the following:
>
>   1) Detect if cross-compiling from x86 linux to win32.
>   2) If 1) is true, detect precence of wine.
>   3) If 2) is true and wine is present, write a wine specific
>      version of the output wrapper scripts.
>
> Cheers,
> Erik


Just setup binfmt-support.

Roumen