Hi, I want to use Debian to develop some cross-platform (Linux and Windows) programs. Compiling programs which don't use any libraries works fine using mingw32, but obviously I cannot use the same libraries for both. To avoid cluttering the build tree with libraries needed for Windows only, I'd like to install some Windows libraries (such as zlib) system-wide (just the way mingw32-runtime installs the win32api). It would be extremely nice to build both the linux and windows versions from the same Debian source package, for example building zlib1g, zlib1g-dev, mingw32-zlib1g and mingw32-zlib1g-dev from the zlib source package. As far as I can see at least for the packages using autotools this should not be too difficult; it should be enough to adapt debian/control to generate the mingw32 packages and debian/rules to pass an appropriate '--host' parameter to configure. Has anybody else done something like this? -- Aaron Isotton | http://www.isotton.com/ If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out. -- Oscar Wilde
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