Re: Build WIN 64 Binaries on linux?
- Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Nov 28, 2011
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OK, Thank you for your help, i do not know much about linux. I have done some cross compiling in the past 32bit with success.
Do i have to build the 64 bit cross compiler myself?
I do not want to venture that.
I suppose you could build it yourself. Ideally, your distro has it in your package management system. On Ubuntu, it's called mingw-w64. This actually installs both the 64 and 32 bit tools for me. You can also get MinGW64 for Windows.
Matt
I have a fresh install of debian 6.0 64 bit and i looked at the pkg repo whith the search term "Mingw and cross compiler" and installed the recomended packages. Either i am stupid or there is no 64 bit cross compiler. But i do lack the motivation to investigate further. Again thank you for your valuable help and the provided binaries.
Aside from the normal gcc-mingw32 package on debian (which contains the 64bit amd64-gcc cross compiler) you also need to install the mingw64 package which contains certain essential files that you won't be able to compile without.
Debian installs the compiler into /usr/amd64-mingw32msvc/bin by default, but I'm not clear on whether or not that's added to the system-wide PATH. You might need a line like this to be able to find it:
export PATH="/usr/amd64-mingw32msvc/bin:$PATH"
Some pretty good, Debian specific instructions are provided here: http://tinc-vpn.org/examples/cross-compiling-64-bit-windows-binary/
