Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Fix #1133

[Felix Winkelmann]

From: Yaroslav Tsarko <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Fix #1133
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2014 16:37:33 +0400

> Sure. First, please take a look at the following CMake wiki page:
> http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_Cross_Compiling.
> 
> In addition to that many CMake commands already know how to properly
> work in cross-compilation mode (for example: find_library command
> http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/v2.8.12/cmake.html#command:find_library).
> 
> In common scenario all you need to do is to set up a few CMake
> variables to specify your cross-compilation target and CMake will
> handle many things automatically.
> 
> As example (I used this to build CLucene library on my Ubuntu 12.04
> system for Windows):
> 
> cmake -D CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=mingw-w64-toolchain.cmake -D
> CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=<path> ..
> 
> where mentioned mingw-w64-toolchain.cmake file contains:
> 
> SET(CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME Windows)
> SET(GNU_HOST i686-w64-mingw32)
> SET(CMAKE_C_COMPILER i686-w64-mingw32-gcc)
> SET(CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER i686-w64-mingw32-g++)
> SET(CMAKE_RC_COMPILER i686-w64-mingw32-windres)
> SET(CMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH  <path-to-mingw32> )

Thanks for the information, this is very helpful.


felix