Changeset 144

Timestamp:

02/13/09 13:56:57 (16 years ago)

Author:

tim

Message:

updated MinGW build documentation

Location:

trunk

Files:

• INSTALL (modified) (2 diffs)
• Makefile (modified) (1 diff)
• doc/mingw-build.txt (added)

trunk/INSTALL

@@ -10 +10 @@
  - GNU Make
  - GCC
+
+Note that iconv support is required, as specified in IEEE Std 1003.1 
+(POSIX.1-2001).  Some platforms still do not contain support for this 
+natively, in which case you may need to install libiconv from:
+  http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/
 
 
@@ -44 +49 @@
 
 For more information, see the Makefiles.
+
+Primitive build features have been added to support cross-compiling to
+Windows binaries using MinGW.  For more information on this, see: 
+  doc/mingw-build.txt

trunk/Makefile

@@ -23 +23 @@
 endif
 
+
+################################################################################
+# MinGW cross-compiling build settings
 ifdef BUILD_MINGW
+
+## These may need to be changed
 CC=i586-mingw32msvc-cc
+LIBICONV_PATH=/usr/local/src/libiconv-1.9.2-1-lib
+
+## These probably do not need to be changed
 BIN_EXT=.exe
-LIBICONV_PATH=/usr/local/src/libiconv-1.9.2-1-lib
 INC:=$(INC) -I$(LIBICONV_PATH)/include
 EXTRA_OBJ=$(LIBICONV_PATH)/lib/libiconv.dll.a
+
 endif
+################################################################################
+
 
 BUILD=$(CURDIR)/build