On 26/03/17 20:54, Stefan Weil wrote: > Am 26.03.2017 um 14:57 schrieb Peter Maydell: >> On 26 March 2017 at 11:30, Mark Cave-Ayland >> <mark.cave-ayl...@ilande.co.uk> wrote: >>> In order to do some testing on a Windows box, I've spent a bit of time >>> this weekend setting up a mingw-w64 build environment on Windows 10 >>> using http://wiki.qemu-project.org/Hosts/W32 as a guideline. >> >> I think most people prefer to use the cross-compile. >> Stefan might do native compiles. > > All installers on https://qemu.weilnetz.de/ are cross built > on Debian GNU Linux, but from time to time I also build on > Windows. > > Setting up a build environment based on Cygwin works pretty > well because Cygwin includes most needed packages to cross > compile for Mingw-w64, both for 32 bit (mingw64-i686-*) > and 64 bit (mingw64-x86_64-*), see > https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=mingw64-&arch=x86_64. > > I also use the Cygwin packages on Debian GNU Linux, > because Debian includes cross tools (compiler, linker) > for Mingw-w64, but nearly no libraries.
Right, I see cygwin has a much newer version of glib available which explains how the builds are produced. What was the exact issue with global symbols which prevents the pre-built Win64 binaries from glib > 2.22 being used? Or is that information now obsolete? ATB, Mark.
