Re: [Mtools] Support cross-compiling for Windows with MinGW; some Windows fixes

[Alain Knaff]

Jamey Sharp wrote:
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>
> With the attached patches, mtools supports cross-compilation for Windows
> using MinGW.  We have also changed mtools to use '\' as the path
> separator on Windows, and to pass drive letters other than the
> command-line drive :: through to Windows.
>
> In order to build mtools, we run configure like this:
>
> ac_cv_func_setpgrp_void=yes ./configure --build=i386-linux-gnu 
> --host=i586-mingw32msvc --disable-floppyd --without-x --disable-raw-term
>
> We specify both --build and --host to force configure into
> cross-compilation mode; otherwise, it tries to run a test program for
> the host on the build system, and if the build system has binfmt-misc
> set up to run exe files with wine as many distros do by default,
> configure will assume native compilation and fail.
>
> Would you consider merging these patches into the next version of
> mtools?
>
> - Jamey Sharp and Josh Triplett

Thanks for these diffs.

This is now part of today's patch

Regards,

Alain