Hi, I hope this is the right place to raise these issues. We've recently been trying to build MinGW (a Windows cross-compiler) plus MinGW packages for Fedora. This "kinda" works, but there are some problems because RPM itself doesn't understand cross-compilation, or maybe we're just not using RPM right.
The problems we've seen so far: (1) The default __os_install_post script does a lot of stuff which is not just irrelevant, but in fact dangerous. In particular it runs Linux 'strip' on Windows binaries which corrupts them. What we'd want it to do is to run the Windows-aware 'i686-pc-mingw32-strip' (from mingw-binutils) on Windows binaries/libraries instead. (2) The default RPM_OPT_FLAGS are wrong in several respects for cross-compiling. One big problem is that they include '-m32' or '-m64' depending on the host architecture (I think). Our target architecture is always 32 bit, so using -m64 is always wrong for us. Also, defaults like -fstack-protector don't work properly on Windows. (3) Auto-dependency generation doesn't work at all, so we end up with manual 'Requires:' in the spec files. I'm not even sure if there is a naming convention for Windows library deps. (4) Running configure in a subdirectory is common (ie. mkdir build; cd build; ../configure). This doesn't easily let me use %configure although in the end I found a really gross hack which worked. If you want to see some of our work, including example specfiles, then take a look at (or 'hg clone'): http://hg.et.redhat.com/misc/fedora-mingw--devel/ Please read the README file first since it explains the order in which you have to build the packages. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/ _______________________________________________ Rpm-maint mailing list Rpm-maint@lists.rpm.org https://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-maint
