51536 – eclass for xmingw-based applications

Bug 51536 - eclass for xmingw-based applications

Summary: eclass for xmingw-based applications

Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	x86 Linux

Importance:	High enhancement (vote)
Assignee:	Stefan Jones (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2004-05-20 00:42 UTC by Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy (RETIRED)
Modified:	2004-09-09 11:43 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-05-20 00:42:59 UTC

I would like to have an eclass for xmingw applications. Cross building using xmingw requires setting a lot of environment variables such as CC, CXX, LD ... Having an eclass would ease the task. In addition to setting variables, it could do somethine like passing proper parameters to configure script, patching libtool (if necessary) ...
This eclass may be used by xmingw-* packages them selves and other xmingw-based ebuilds (though i don't know whether cross compiled gtk+ ebuild is appreciated in portage)

Comment 1 Stefan Jones (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-09-09 11:43:25 UTC

This is only a few lines and hightly dependant on your setup.
Eg:
export PATH=/opt/xmingw/bin:/usr/lib/wine/bin:$PATH
export CC=i386-mingw32msvc-gcc
export CXX=i386-mingw32msvc-g++
export RANLIB=i386-mingw32msvc-ranlib
export AR=i386-mingw32msvc-ar
export AS=i386-mingw32msvc-as
export RC=i386-mingw32msvc-windres
export STRIP=i386-mingw32msvc-strip
export TARGET=i386-mingw32msvc

and very easy. If someone is advanced enough to want to crosscompile an app then let them provide there own!

I doubt cross compiled apps will make it into portage, if they do then I will add it, otherwise closing.

If I did make a script then I would have to maintain it and check it works. Varst amount of apps will not work and I can not prepared to maintain something I do not use / want.

Sorry.