Re: [Mingw-users] configure with cross compiler

[<phil@flamewars.org>]

Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com> said:

> phil@flamewars.org wrote:
> > I've installed the Debian mingw32 package, but can't figure out how to 
build software with it.
> > 
> > The binaries appear to be installed in /usr/i586-mingw32msvc/bin, and 
running i586-mingw32msvc-gcc -v gives
> > 
> > Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mingw32msvc/3.2/specs
> > Configured with: /home/ron/devel/debian/mingw32/mingw32-
3.2/build_dir/src/gcc-3.2-20020817-1/configure -v --prefix=/usr --target=i586-
mingw32msvc --enable-languages=c,c++ --enable-threads --disable-multilib --
enable-version-specific-runtime-libs
> > Thread model: win32
> > gcc version 3.2 (mingw special 20020817-1)
> > 
> > So that's alright. But how do I go about getting a configure script to 
use these binaries instead of the native ones? I've tried just about every 
combination of --host, --target, and --build that I can think of, and I've 
read http://www.libsdl.org/extras/win32/cross/README.txt , and that hasn't 
seemed to help me either. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
> > 
> 
> Based on the directory configuration that you give above you should be 
> able to just do  `./configure --host=i586-mingw32msvc' but that may be 
> dependent on the version of autoconf that configure was built with.  I 
> would tend to do `./configure --host=i586-mingw32msvc 
> --target=i586-mingw32msvc --build=`./config.guess`' to remove any doubt 
> about what the default is.
> 
> Earnie.
> 
> 

Here's what I get:

phil@rama:~/SDL-1.2.5$ ./configure --host=i586-mingw32msvc --target=i586-
mingw32msvc --build='.config.guess'
loading cache ./config.cache
checking host system type... i586-pc-mingw32msvc
checking target system type... i586-pc-mingw32msvc
checking for a BSD compatible install... (cached) /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... (cached) yes
checking for working aclocal... found
checking for working autoconf... found
checking for working automake... found
checking for working autoheader... found
checking for working makeinfo... found
checking build system type... Invalid configuration `.config.guess': machine 
`.config.guess' not recognized

checking for ranlib... (cached) ranlib
checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) works... yes
checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) is a cross-compiler... no
checking whether we are using GNU C... (cached) yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking for ld used by GCC... (cached) /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... (cached) yes
checking for BSD-compatible nm... (cached) /usr/bin/nm -B
checking whether ln -s works... (cached) yes
/configure: line 1473: test: i586-pc-mingw32msvc: unary operator expected
checking for dlltool... no
checking for as... (cached) as
checking for objdump... (cached) objdump
loading cache ./config.cache within ltconfig
checking for object suffix... o
checking for executable suffix... (cached) no
checking for gcc option to produce PIC... none
checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking if gcc supports -c -o file.lo... yes
checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions ... yes
checking if gcc static flag -static works... -static
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking whether the linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes
checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output... ok
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r
checking dynamic linker characteristics... Win32 ld.exe
checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
checking if package supports dlls... yes
checking whether to build shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build static libraries... yes
checking for objdir... .libs
creating libtool
loading cache ./config.cache
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... (cached) yes
checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
checking whether the C compiler (gcc -g -O2 ) works... yes
checking whether the C compiler (gcc -g -O2 ) is a cross-compiler... no
checking whether we are using GNU C... (cached) yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking for inline... inline
checking for working const... yes
checking for c++... c++
checking whether the C++ compiler (c++  ) works... yes
checking whether the C++ compiler (c++  ) is a cross-compiler... no
checking whether we are using GNU C++... yes
checking whether c++ accepts -g... yes
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for working alloca.h... yes
checking for alloca... yes
checking Win32 compiler... no
configure: error:
*** Your compiler (gcc) does not produce Win32 executables!

phil@rama:~/SDL-1.2.5$