Re: Compiling Chicken app for Windows from linux with Docker

[Mario Domenech Goulart]

Hi Théo and all,

On Sun, 27 Jun 2021 12:34:24 +0200 Théo Cavignac <theo.cavignac@gmail.com> 
wrote:

> After my previous mail concerning the static compilation in a Docker
> container I figured it would be nice to use the same idea to create a
> cross compilation environment for linux-to-windows dev.
>
>
> Using the cross development article on the wiki, digging through the
> build system a bit and fiddling a lot I created a MinGW-w64 based
> environment that let you build standalone apps from your chicken code
> and your favorite eggs that can be distributed as a single binary
> without needing dev oriented dependencies like cygwin or MSYS2.
>
> I have to say I am pretty happy with this achievement, even if it may
> not be much, because I learned a ton on the building system of
> Chicken, and on linking in general.

That looks cool!  Thanks for sharing it!

> I plan on contributing to the wiki some of the knowledge I gathered
> during the process. I already submitted a ticket to fix what seems to
> be a typo in the Makefile.cross-linux-mingw file in chicken sources.
>
> By the way, I don't think I have an account to edit the wiki. Can I
> have one with username lattay ?

Sure.  You should now be able to use your bug tracker credentials to
authenticate to the wiki too.

> Here is the Docker environment ready to be built:
> https://github.com/Lattay/chicken_docker/tree/main/mingw
>
> Here is an image ready to go (because compiling chicken twice is
> pretty long):
> https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/lattay/chicken-mingw
>
> The script that automate the process of spinning the container and
> extracting the final binary has been updated accordingly and now
> support the option `--platform mingw`:
> https://github.com/Lattay/chicken-build-static
>
>
> Currently my testing of this environment is pretty limited. I did a
> test with the args egg but I don't know how well it would perform with
> more complex eggs like bind based one.
>
> I don't have a non trivial app that would work on windows to test with
> this process.
>
> Hence, I would be interested in some real world Windows ready app for this.
>
> I would also be interested in feedback from testing this with your own app.
>
> Also, I have yet to understand what is the difference between console
> and GUI app in windows and how this environment could be used to build
> graphical apps.
>
>
> As always, I am very open to critiques and suggestions so please feel free !

All the best.
Mario
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