commit 78d6c2f331dae8a13d0924e86408058d0a9cc822
Author: Georg Baum <b...@lyx.org>
Date: Sun May 8 14:30:09 2016 +0200
Describe cross-compilation with MXE
MXE is really a great project: It provides a cross-compilation environment
for compiling windows binaries using mingw from any unix system, and
includes
lots of prepackaged libraries. The latter distinguishes it from the mingw
cross-compilers packaged with some linux distros such as debian.
I was even able to run the resulting lyx.exe using wine!
diff --git a/INSTALL.Win32 b/INSTALL.Win32
index abd3601..1cc9928 100644
--- a/INSTALL.Win32
+++ b/INSTALL.Win32
@@ -121,3 +121,31 @@ Compiling with GCC with MinGW64 + MSYS2 Environment using
autotools
make
make install
+
+Cross-Compiling on unix with MXE using autotools
+=================================================
+1 Install MXE: http://mxe.cc
+ You can either install from sources, the generic .tar binaries or
debian .deb packages.
+ Installing the following .deb packages will drag in all needed
dependencies:
+ mxe-x86-64-w64-mingw32.shared-file
+ mxe-x86-64-w64-mingw32.shared-gcc
+ mxe-x86-64-w64-mingw32.shared-libiconv
+ mxe-x86-64-w64-mingw32.shared-qtimageformats
+ mxe-x86-64-w64-mingw32.shared-qtsvg
+ mxe-x86-64-w64-mingw32.shared-qtwinextras
+ Of course you can also use the static and/or 32bit versions.
+2 Run the standard autotools install (Adapt paths and arguments
accordingly)
+ ./autogen.sh
+ mkdir builddir-mingw
+ cd builddir-mingw
+ PATH="/usr/lib/mxe/usr/bin:$PATH" ../configure
--host=x86-64-w64-mingw32.shared
--with-qt-dir=/usr/lib/mxe/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32.shared/qt5 --enable-qt5
--with-included-boost --with-included-hunspell --with-included-mythes
--disable-debug --enable-optimization --prefix=/mingw64
+ PATH="/usr/lib/mxe/usr/bin:$PATH" make
+ PATH="/usr/lib/mxe/usr/bin:$PATH" DESTDIR=/tmp/lyxinstall make install
+ This uses the paths from the 64bit shared MXE version installed from
.deb packages.
+3 If you want to run the resulting lyx.exe from the build directory using
wine,
+ create symlinks for all needed .dlls:
+ cd builddir-mingw/src
+ ln -s /usr/lib/mxe/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32.shared/bin/*.dll .
+ ln -s /usr/lib/mxe/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32.shared/qt5/bin/*.dll .
+ wine64 lyx.exe
+
