On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 10:17 PM, Warren Young <mysqlpp@stripped> wrote:
> Leonti Bielski wrote:
>>
>> I'm sorry - I used Makefile.mingw. Sorry for the confusion.
>
> No problem. Would you look over this final set of instructions, to see if
> I've interpreted it all correctly?
>
>> Building on Linux
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> You might need to build Windows executables while not actually
>> running Windows. You might think to use MinGW, being a port
>> of GCC, the standard compiler on almost every non-Windows OS
>> these days.
>>
>> The best way to do this is to run MinGW under either Wine or
>> some sort of virtual machine running an actual copy of Windows.
>> Leonti Bielski provided these instructions for the Wine method:
>>
>> 1. Install MinGW through Wine:
>>
>> $ wine MinGW-5.1.6.exe
>>
>> 2. Add the MinGW directory to Wine's PATH with Wine
> regedit:
>>
>>
> http://winehq.org/site/docs/wineusr-guide/environment-variables
>>
>> 3. Install MySQL under Wine, or at least unpack the
> Windows
>> ZIP file version of MySQL in a place where
> Wine can find it.
>> You don't need to run a Windows MySQL server
> under Wine.
>> We're only doing this to get the MySQL C API
> library and
>> its headers, which MySQL++ builds against.
> The resulting
>> MinGW build of MySQL++ can talk to a native
> MySQL server
>> out in Wine's host environment or on some
> other machine.
>>
>> 4. Modify Makefile.mingw to match the install location
> for
>> the MySQL C API files.
>>
>> 5. Create libmysqlclient.a as described above, except
> with
>> minor differences for running under Wine:
>>
>> $ wine mingw32-dlltool -k -d
> /native/path/libmysqlclient.def...
>>
>> 6. Build MySQL++ with:
>> $ wine
> mingw32-make -f Makefile.mingw
>>
>> You might think it would be simpler to just use a MinGW
>> cross-compiler. Unfortunately, this doesn't currently work:
>>
>> $ ./configure --target=mingw32
>> $ make
>>
>> The reason is that our autoconf build system assumes a
>> typical POSIX type target, which MinGW is not. We made this
>> assumption because we have a perfectly good MinGW build option,
>> Makefile.mingw. But, that also won't work on a POSIX system
>> because that Makefile assumes external commands run under cmd.exe,
>> not some Unixy shell. Thus the advice to build with
> Makefile.mingw
>> under Windows or something sufficiently close to it.
>>
>> If you really wanted to, you could extend the autoconf build system
>> to make it realize when it's being used to cross-compile for MinGW.
>> Patches thoughtfully considered; see HACKERS.txt.
>
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>
Yeap, the instructions are correct. That's exactly what I did.
Thank you for including me there :)
Leonti
